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Article: AHF: Pfizer Wrongdoing Echoes Viagra Case.
- Article from:
- AIDS Weekly
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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As part of its ongoing campaign to lower drug prices and increase access, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today lauded the U.S. Justice Department's crackdown on Pfizer, Inc. for its fraudulent drug marketing practices. It was reported that Pfizer Inc. agreed to a $1.2 billion criminal fine, the largest in U.S. history, to resolve an investigation over unlawful prescription drug promotions, including the promotion of several drugs for the treatment of medical conditions other than those the drugs had been approved for by federal regulators-also known as "off-label" use (see also AIDS Healthcare Foundation).
AIDS Healthcare Foundation believes that the fraudulent ...