A group called Prescription Access Litigation has announced this year's Bitter Pill Awards in four categories to drug companies engaging in over-zealous and questionable marketing practices. The drug industry’s national lobbying group, PhRMA, received two awards, and the remaining three awards were shared among makers of five of the nation’s most well-known drugs: Lunesta, Ambien/AmbienCR, Lipitor, Crestor and Strattera.
Disclosure: This effort is led by a bunch of class action law firms that say they're trying "to make prescription drugs more affordable for consumers by using class action litigation and public education to bring an end to illegal pharmaceutical price inflation."
Posted by schwitz at May 4, 2006 07:35 AM | TrackBack