Category Archives: Corporate Responsibility

Johnson & Johnson Slammed Over Manufacturing Practices, Phantom Recall

In 1982, Johnson & Johnson garnered an enduring amount of goodwill when, seemingly without any thought of lost profit, it immediately yanked Tylenol from the shelves nationwide after learning someone was slipping cyanide into bottles in Chicago. The company’s sure and swift PR response became the model for crisis management for the corporate world. But in [...]
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Novartis Employees Get $250 million Payout

A Federal jury in New York ruled against Novartis in a gender discrimination lawsuit, ordering the company to pay $3.36 million in compensatory damages to 12 women and $250 million in punitive damages to 5,600 others in one of the largest gender discrimination class actions in American history. The women charged that Novartis created a [...]
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TB Alliance Trumpets New, Improved Drugs at World Health Assembly

Like polio and leprosy, developed countries have long since tamed tuberculosis. But even now, other parts of the world continue to struggle against the disease, with nearly all (98 percent) of TB’s 1.7 million worldwide deaths occurring in developing countries. TB’s high comorbidity with HIV infections has recently added another level of urgency to efforts [...]
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Is There Life After Big Pharma?

Guest blog by Pharm Exec Europe’s Jacky Law. It’s hard to get precise figures of how many people have been taken off the payroll at pharma and biotech companies recently. According to staffing firm, Challender, Gray and Christmas, the combined industries shed 58,969 jobs in the first nine months of 2009, 15,000 more than the whole [...]
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Takeda Changes Dexlansoprazole Brand Name From Kapidex to Dexilant

Takeda’s US subsidiary launched its proton pump inhibitor dexlansoprazole last February under the name Kapidex. No one thought they’d have to find a new name a year later. But shortly after the launch, the company began getting reports of dispensing errors. Some were due to prescription misreading, others to simple, honest mistakes. The two drugs causing [...]
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