Pfizer Inc. subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. has been sentenced to pay the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the U.S. for misbranding the arthritis pain medication Bextra, the U.S. Justice Department said late Friday. The Pfizer unit must pay a criminal fine of just under $1.2 billion and a criminal forfeiture of $105 million, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement. Read the full Bextra fraud article here.

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The FDA reports today that a family of drugs known as TNF blockers (designed to interfere with a chemical in the body which causes inflammation) and which are used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile arthritis, might be causing cancer in children and young adults. The brands under investigation include; Remicade, Humira, and Enbrel. More than 30 cases of cancer in the young who were taking these drugs have been reported over the last 10 years … read more here.

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