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The agency is concerned that the powerful Fentora pain drug will be easily abused if made available on a widespread basis. Right now, the Cephalon lozenge is used to treat pain associated with acute pain suffered by cancer patients, but the drugmaker wants FDA approval to sell the narcotic to treat sudden pain in others.
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Nice to see you again. As the rain moves away from the nation’s medicine chest, we have been scurrying to deposit short people at schools and gather items of interest. Now, we are settling down with our beloved cup of stimulation. So take a pause and join us. And best of luck today…
Medco Profit Beats [...]

Maybe the Cephalon board should take its own Provigil, which is supposed to treat excessive sleepiness. The drugmaker gave Frank Baldino Jr. a salary of $1.2 million, a bonus of $2.2 million and other compensation of nearly $77,000, which included $33,240 for a car allowance and $14,500 in financial planning expenses. Then there were stock [...]

Earlier this month, the US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit accusing Cephalon of paying more than $200 million to four rivals for keeping generic versions of its Provigial sleep-disorder pill off the market. The move was the latest effort in a long-running battle by the agency to thwart settlements it labels costly to consumers. [...]

The agency is challenging deals worth an estimated $200 million with Barr Labs, Ranbaxy Labs, Mylan Labs and Teva to keep a generic version of the Provigil sleep-disorder pill off the market until 2012. In its suit, the FTC asks the US District Court for the District of Columbia to void the agreements, essentially giving [...]

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The drugmaker argues the problem is all about inappropriate prescribing. So Cephalon sent letters to docs this week warning that several deaths have been linked to Fentora, a highly addictive narcotic used to treat acute cancer pain. Here’s the catch - Fentora and its predecessor, Actiq, are approved only for use in cancer patients, but [...]

The targets: Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis, Eli Lilly, Cephalon and AstraZeneca. The products at issue: Seroquel, Zyprexa, Fentora, Actiq and drug-coated stents.
U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, who heads the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent letters last Thursday looking for truckloads of information about clinical trials, industry conferences, correspondence, marketing brochures, and [...]