PHARMA FLASHBACK: Pfizer shelled out $2.3B to settle civil and criminal charges in 2009
| (Natural News) In Sept. 2009, Pfizer pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal allegations levied against the Big Pharma company for illegally marketing its arthritis drug for unapproved off-label use. The drug in question is Bextra, known by its generic name valdecoxib. Bextra was manufactured primarily by Pfizer subsidiary Pharmacia &... |