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Former Sanofi head Viehbacher to become Biogen CEO

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Viehbacher led Sanofi between 2008 and 2014 and has decades of experience with both large pharmaceutical companies and small biotechs. However, in 2014 Sanofi fired Viehbacher over a boardroom fight regarding his management. Biogen’s shares rose 2.4% to $289.01 in pre-market trading following the announcement.

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Whistleblower gets $250m as Biogen settles US kickbacks case

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Biogen has finalised a $900 million payment to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming that it paid kickbacks to US doctors to prescribe its multiple sclerosis drugs. That resulted in false claims for payment being submitted to the government healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid, it alleged. .”

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Biogen’s $900 million settlement signals scrutiny on speaker fees

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In 2009, former Biogen employee Michael Bawduniak filed a lawsuit claiming that Biogen had violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by providing millions of dollars to healthcare providers (HCPs) as an incentive to prescribe three of its multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs. Biogen’s activity in multiple sclerosis.

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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) further estimates that 97 percent of online pharmacies are operating illegally. We hope that this article serves draws attention from the community and makes funding agencies aware of this imperative healthcare sustainability problem. About the author. 2019; Available from: [link].

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Will A.I. Replace the Medical Sales Workforce and Surgeons? With Edouard Saget

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The negotiation with the hospital, the shipping across boundaries, frontiers, FDA, and non-FDA is very interesting. It’s very interesting, all the way to the surgical procedure, the recovery, and to 2 or 3 years later, which is the patient record and outcome tracking. It’s a very interesting business. This is it.

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Exforge antitrust settlement caps Novartis’ year of legal disputes

Pharmaceutical Technology

The agreement outlined that Par would keep its generic equivalent off the market for as many as two years, delaying the generic launch till September 30, 2014. In September, Novartis sent the FDA a petition, after a similar one was rejected in April 2021, asking for Entresto’s patent protection to be extended to February 2024.