Mississippi Business Journal » medicines http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Six defendants to plead guilty to trafficking drugs http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/15/six-defendants-to-plead-guilty-to-trafficking-drugs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=six-defendants-to-plead-guilty-to-trafficking-drugs http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/15/six-defendants-to-plead-guilty-to-trafficking-drugs/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:53:01 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=48566 GULFPORT — The last of six alleged middlemen accused in a prescription conspiracy case involving a former Stone County surgeon selling prescriptions for pain pills and anxiety medication intends to plead guilty in the case. That’s according to U.S. District Court records. Kevin Anderson was one of six accused in a federal indictment of obtaining [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/15/six-defendants-to-plead-guilty-to-trafficking-drugs/feed/ 0 Pharmacy’s growth makes Inc. 5000 ranking http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/16/pharmacys-growth-makes-inc-5000-ranking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pharmacys-growth-makes-inc-5000-ranking http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/16/pharmacys-growth-makes-inc-5000-ranking/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:35:47 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=46171 JACKSON — Transcript Pharmacy has landed on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately owned businesses in America for the fourth year in a row. It ranked 116 in the health industry. “We are blessed to be trusted by so many healthcare professionals and so many patients who, month after month, give us the [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/16/pharmacys-growth-makes-inc-5000-ranking/feed/ 0 Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals cuts global deal with CoPlex http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/13/hawthorn-pharmaceuticals-cuts-global-deal-with-coplex/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hawthorn-pharmaceuticals-cuts-global-deal-with-coplex http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/13/hawthorn-pharmaceuticals-cuts-global-deal-with-coplex/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:36:57 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=46017 MADISON — Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals Inc. has struck an exclusive global licensing deal with CoPlex Therapeutics on hawAD14, a preclinical oral small molecule candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Under the terms of the agreement, Hawthorn will receive an exclusive worldwide license to develop and commercialize hawAD14 and will be responsible for [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/13/hawthorn-pharmaceuticals-cuts-global-deal-with-coplex/feed/ 0 State wins drug-pricing lawsuit against Sandoz http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/07/state-wins-medicaid-drug-pricing-lawsuit-against-sandoz/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-wins-medicaid-drug-pricing-lawsuit-against-sandoz http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/07/state-wins-medicaid-drug-pricing-lawsuit-against-sandoz/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:51:33 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=45726 JACKSON — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says the state has been awarded $38.2 million in a Medicaid drug-pricing lawsuit. Hood says a judge found that a pharmaceutical company, Sandoz Inc., inflated the average wholesale prices for its generic drugs. In a news release yesterday, Hood says the inflated number caused Mississippi Medicaid to lose [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/07/state-wins-medicaid-drug-pricing-lawsuit-against-sandoz/feed/ 0 Uniondale accuses Wyeth of patent fraud http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/07/uniondale-accuses-wyeth-of-patent-fraud/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uniondale-accuses-wyeth-of-patent-fraud http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/07/uniondale-accuses-wyeth-of-patent-fraud/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:25:15 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=43225 JACKSON — A federal lawsuit filed this week in Mississippi claims a major pharmaceutical company made millions of dollars by misrepresenting clinical data and using sham litigation to maintain a monopoly over a drug used to treat depression and anxiety. Uniondale Chemists Inc., a retail pharmacy in Uniondale, N.Y., filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/07/uniondale-accuses-wyeth-of-patent-fraud/feed/ 0 Bayer settles contamination case with rice farmers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/05/bayer-settles-contamination-case-with-rice-farmers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bayer-settles-contamination-case-with-rice-farmers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/05/bayer-settles-contamination-case-with-rice-farmers/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:59:37 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=43158 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — German conglomerate Bayer CropScience has agreed to pay up to $750 million to settle several lawsuits with U.S. farmers who claimed a strain of the company’s unapproved genetically modified rice contaminated the food supply and hurt their crop prices. The litigation goes back to 2006, when Bayer disclosed that an experimental strain [...]

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