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Questions swirl around Trump lawyer after Russia-linked payments to dummy company
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal lawyer, faced growing scrutiny Wednesday following revelations that a shell company he established received millions of dollars from a Russian oligarch and corporations seeking White House access. Cohen, Trump's attorney and fixer for the past decade, is under criminal investigation ...
Novartis ends contract with firm linked to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, calling ties a mistake
Swiss drugmaker Novartis has ended a contract with a firm linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, saying it was now seen as a mistake. Novartis, which has not been accused of any illegal activity, made payments totalling nearly $1.2 million to the ...
Japanese doctor who exposed a drug too good to be true calls for morality and reforms
It was a gut feeling and common sense that made Dr. Iwao Kuwajima question a drug for high blood pressure that just about every other doctor in his field was excited about in the 2000s. Kuwajima, now 72, was the first doctor in the nation ...
Novartis posts win, Roche a flop in drug trials targeting skin cancer
Swiss drugmaker Novartis notched a trial win for its drug cocktail against skin cancer on Monday, while a rival treatment from Roche with slipping sales failed in a separate study with a similar patient group. All the medicines were tested in melanoma patients who had ...
Novartis Japan faces censure for delay in disclosing drug side effects
The health ministry will censure a Japanese unit of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG for failing to report serious side effects from some of its drugs within a certain period of time, sources close to the matter said Wednesday. The Ministry of Health, Labor and ...
Gene therapy for deafness is moving closer to reality, with new research on Wednesday showing the technique for fixing faulty DNA can improve responses in mice with genetic hearing loss. Separately, a clinical trial backed by Novartis is under way to help a different group ...
Novartis Pharma, ex-employee charged over drug data manipulation
Tokyo prosecutors charged Novartis Pharma K.K. and a former employee Tuesday with causing a medical research team to release data manipulated in favor of the firm's drug for treating high blood pressure in 2011. The prosecutors also issued a fresh arrest warrant for the former ...
Ex-Novartis worker seized for faking clinical trial data of blood pressure drug
A former employee of Novartis Pharma K.K. has been arrested for allegedly manipulating clinical study data for one of the company’s drugs.
The manipulation of clinical research data used to develop the blood pressure drug Diovan sold by Novartis Pharma K.K. has prompted a special squad of Tokyo prosecutors to search the Japanese unit of the Swiss drugmaker as well as the universities that conducted the ...
Tokyo prosecutors raided Novartis Pharma K.K. on Wednesday over its alleged use of exaggerated advertising for a blood pressure-lowering drug, following a criminal complaint filed by the health ministry last month. The ministry claimed that the ads for Diovan cited clinical study reports by two ...
A health ministry panel is questioning Novartis Pharma K.K.'s use of clinical research data in promoting the sale of Diovan, its drug to lower blood pressure, saying it "could constitute misleading advertisement" after revelations that some of the data were manipulated. The Japanese unit of ...
Novartis ordered to state skin disorders as Diovan side effects
The health ministry has instructed Novartis Pharma K.K. to state in an attached note for its Diovan blood pressure-lowering drug that the medicine may cause serious skin disorders. Diovan, whose generic name is valsartan, has been cited in a recent suspected case of clinical data ...
