INTERESTING READS

In a case concerning the drugs Paxil (antidepressant), Wellbutrin (antidepressant), and Avandia (antidiabetic medicine), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to pay $3bn (£1.9bn) in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history. The pharma giant ‘has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top diabetes drug, federal prosecutors announced…The agreement also includes civil penalties for improper marketing of a half-dozen other drugs’.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/glaxosmithkline-agrees-to-pay-3-billion-in-fraud-settlement.html?hp&pagewanted=all http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18673220

‘I still consider myself a reserved person and I hope this doesn’t mean an end to a small amount of personal space. But I do think visibility is important, more important than preserving my reporter’s shield of privacy.’

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‘Media Decoder: Revelation Signals a Shift on Views of Homosexuality’, Brian Stelter in NYT:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/anderson-cooper-says-the-fact-is-im-gay/?hp