Category: Medication
Drug Company Gifts To Doctors Should Be Disclosed And Limited, Ct AG Urges
Conn Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today urged legislation requiring strict limitations and strong disclosure of pharmaceutical drug company gifts to doctors that may improperly influence health care decisions. (Press release which CtWatchdog totally agrees with)
Blumenthal — who has handled several major investigations and settlements involving drug company influence over doctors — testified on the legislation [...]
Real Health Care Reform: We Could Save Hundreds Of Billions With Common Sense Changes
To me, the most powerful and easy to understand part of the health care debate this week came last night on the Larry King show, not during the eight-hour historic televised debate between the president and Republicans – which was mostly theater for the feeble minded.
Two doctors – both prominent politicians from both parties – [...]
Leukemia Researchers And Those Who Celebrate Their Hearts Won In The 16th Valentine’s Ball In Hartford
For the past 16 years, friends of the Michael and Bess Economos family of West Hartford, Ct., had no problem figuring out what they would do to celebrate Valentine’s Day:
Attend the Valentine Ball to raise money for leukemia research at the University of Connecticut Health Center and to help the families whose children have been [...]
Old Saybrook Doctor Has Controlled Substance Registration Pulled By State
Connecticut Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. has issued a summary suspension of the controlled substance registration of Scott W. Houghton, M.D. of Old Saybrook, and has ordered a hearing regarding Houghton to determine if the summary suspension issued today should continue and his controlled substance registration be permanently revoked.
“We have strong reason to believe [...]
Controversial Study Linking Autism To Vaccines Withdrawn
A prominent British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a 1998 research paper that set off a sharp decline in vaccinations in Britain after the paper’s lead author suggested that vaccines could cause autism.
Read the complete story from the New York Times here
Three Drug Companies Pay Fines For Blocking Generics
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced a $22.5 million settlement reached by Connecticut and other states with three drug companies, resolving allegations that the companies illegally blocked cheaper, generic versions of TriCor, a cholesterol drug, from reaching the market.
Herpes Sufferers: Generic Valtrex Now Available
For the tens of millions of Americans who have herpes – a disease that does not go away – there is now a much cheaper alternative to the only effective medicine – Valtrex – that is getting to be widely available.
Health insurance companies have recently begun notifying their customers that valacyclovir, the generic form of [...]
CVS Sued For Selling Expired Drugs, Food
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. are suing the giant CVS Pharmacy chain, claiming it has sold food, beverages and over-the-counter medications past their expiration dates at 20 or more of its Connecticut stores.
According to Blumenthal, the expired items included cough and allergy medicines, baby formula and antacids, as well as [...]
Health Savings Account Deadline Looming: Spend
Do you have a Flexible Spending Account for your health bills that are not covered by insurance?
Chances are that you have only until the end of the year to spend all the money in there or you will lose it. That is the only drawback of the FSA that I know of.
But there is no [...]
Some Vicks Sinex Nasal Spray Recalled
HARTFORD, November 20 – Consumers who have a bottle of Vicks Sinex nasal spray at home are urged to check the Lot Number on the package to be sure it is not from one of three lots that are being recalled in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. said today.
Vicks manufacturer Procter & Gamble and the Food and Drug Administration are voluntary recalling the lots because bacteria B. cepacia was found in a small amount of product made at its plant in Gross Gerau, Germany.
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