Comments on: Were Vytorin Results Circulating Under Our Noses?

By: BP Watch

BP Watch — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:09:20 +0000

I wonder when the FDA, OIG, OAG, SEC and Congress will get around to conducting their investigations into this fiasco? It can’t come soon enough!

By: PRSP

PRSP — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:52:21 +0000

The people hurt in this case come from two sources: the poor stockholders who hung onto their shares while the big shots sold off huge blocks and the poor employees who have large amounts of stock in their 401K plans who now have much less. The garden-variety investor went unprotected while the executives with inside information raked in millions. These actions are unethical, illegal and disgusting! I really hope that the SEC is successful with its’ ionvestigation and subsequent prosecution.

By: "Phil"

"Phil" — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:01:24 +0000

Shameful and pitiful. The exact reason I got out of big pharma.

By: ol cranky

ol cranky — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:28:23 +0000

Even more interesting is the fact that Cafe Pharma isn’t a site most clinical development personnel, the ones who are knee-deep in the data, even know about let alone visit. That means the top-line results had bubbled up and over for a leak to get to someone in sales that would frequent the site.

By: BP MD

BP MD — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:34:49 +0000

It appears there will be even more difficult fires to put out at Schering-Plough in Kenilworth! This is tremendous information added to the pile of evidence that seem to indicate huge ethical problems at the heart of this very suspect company. There’s lies, d&$%n lies and Big Pharma lies, with the latter being the worst kind!

By: Peter Rost

Peter Rost — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:34:25 +0000

Thanks Ed, I was actually rather shaken when I realized how every dot matched up with what later happened, revealed six to nine months earlier on CP . . . If these were simply random guesses, one would have expected to find the opposite as well; rosy forecasts about the trial results. I didn’t find that.

By: BDM

BDM — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:19:23 +0000

Absolutely shocking!!!!!

By: SPRI

SPRI — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:16:19 +0000

This is absolutely incredible! Peter Rost is doing the investigative work for all of the agencies (FDA, OIG, SEC, OAG) and groups (House, Senate) that want to look into this entire ENHANCE fiasco. If Schering-Plough employees, who are in the field outside of Kenilworth HQ, were posting information they had heard about ENHANCE months and months ago, how in the world is anyone ever going to believe that the top executives, who are located in the hallowed ground of the company, knew nothing at all about the results of ENHANCE prior to the press release on January 14! If some investigators, friends of investigators, and physicians knew that ENHANCE was a disaster, then how will anyone ever believe that Fred Hassan, Carrie Cox, C. Ron Cheeley, Brent Saunders, Tom Sabatino and their cronies had no knowledge of the results.

One writer speculates that SP was searching for alternative endpoints and attempting to develop a counter-strategy. Another notes that ENHANCE failed for the primary endpoint and there were more liver problems with Vytorin. This is very detailed information about a study for which the results were unknown until early January of this year. More evidence that Schering-Plough and its top executives are lying through their teeth and need to be dealt with by the appropriate legal authorities! I certainly hope that they act soon!