GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $3 Billion Fine After Pleading Guilty to Healthcare Fraud - the Biggest in U.S. History

'A UK drugs firm has been hit with a $3billion penalty after admitting to the ‘biggest healthcare fraud in history’.

GlaxoSmithKline paid U.S. medics to prescribe potentially dangerous medicines to adults and children.

It handed out cash as well as everything from Madonna concert tickets to pheasant-hunting trips. Authorities branded GSK as ‘cheaters who thought they could make an easy profit at the expense of public safety, taxpayers, and millions of Americans’.'


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The "Death by Paxil" inquest involving Sara Carlin

'Yesterday saw the start of the "Death by Paxil" inquest involving Sara Carlin.

The inquest was called for after Sara, a bonny teeneager from Oakville, Toronto, took her own life by hanging herself in the basement of her parents home on Sunday, May 6, 2007.

The motto for the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario is "We Speak for the Dead to Protect the Living." In other words, the coroner will review the circumstances around the death of a person in hopes that similar deaths can be prevented in the future.

As events unfolded on day one of Sara's inquest, one cannot help but feel that the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario's motto should be changed to, "We Speak for the Defendants to Protect thier Profits."

It would appear that the Carlin’s are up against not only the might of GlaxoSmithKline's lawyers & the doctors lawyers but also the coroner’s lawyer Michael Blain.'


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