Cashing In: RI Doctors Paid Millions By Pharmaceutical Companies

Dozens of Rhode Island doctors received more than $2 million in payments from eight pharmaceutical companies in 2009 and 2010 for promotional or consulting work, according to a report issued by ProPublica.org.

Cashing In: RI Doctors Paid Millions By Pharmaceutical Companies

Lawsuits Say Pharma Illegally Paid Doctors to Push Their Drugs

Drug companies say the millions of dollars they pay physicians for speaking and consulting justly compensates them for the laudable work of educating their colleagues.

Lawsuits Say Pharma Illegally Paid Doctors to Push Their Drugs

Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay

A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to university officials, according to information given Congressional investigators.

Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay

J&J paid kickbacks to hike sales of schizophrenia drug: prosecutors

J&J paid kickbacks to hike sales of schizophrenia drug: prosecutors

U.S. prosecutors said Friday that health care giant Johnson&Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its blockbuster schizophrenia medicine and other drugs.