Source US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has made the first compensation payment to Nigerian families affected by a controversial drug trial 15 years ago. It paid $175,000 (£108,000) each to four families in the first of a series of payments it is expected to make. The payouts are part of an out-of-court settlement reached in 2009. […]
Source Pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. (Pfizer), based in New York, NY, has agreed to pay $23.85 million to resolve claims that it used a foundation as a conduit to pay the copays of Medicare patients taking three Pfizer drugs, in violation of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. When a Medicare beneficiary […]
Source Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing WASHINGTON – American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together “Pfizer”) have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from […]
Source None of the potentially contaminated Johnson & Johnson shots produced at the Baltimore Emergency BioSolutions were ever distributed, but 15 million doses had to be discarded. The latest report says more may be compromised. CBS News: FDA Inspectors Find “Brown Residue” And Other Violations In Plant Making Johnson & Johnson Vaccine The Baltimore factory contracted […]
Source The document linked above from the CDC lowers the bar by which the RT-PCR test will find a positive result in vaccinated individuals. Is this an effort to make the vaccines appear more efficacious by lessening the likelihood of false positives and making it harder overall to be considered a positive case in comparison […]
By NICOLE STOCKCHICAGO TRIBUNE |APR 20, 2021 AT 5:00 AM When Katy Fyksen got a heavy period a few days after she received her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, she didn’t consider there might be a link. The 43-year-old Plainfield woman hadn’t had a period in over a year and a half because of her Mirena IUD, […]
BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n149 (Published 15 January 2021)Cite this as: BMJ 2021;372:n149 Doctors in Norway have been told to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer BioNTec vaccine against covid-19, following the deaths of 23 patients shortly after receiving the vaccine. “It may be a coincidence, but we aren’t sure,” Steinar Madsen, medical […]
