Bite Size News, September 29: I Want a New Drug Company Speaking Engagement Edition

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  • Should doctors get paid by pharmaceutical corporations like Eli Lilly & Co. for speaking on behalf of drugs they make and doctors prescribe to us? No, but 60 Bay State physicians have done it this year anyway and were paid a total of $500,000 to do it. [Boston Globe]
  • For two "change" candidates, Sam Yoon and Michael Flaherty seem to be pretty familiar with brokering purely political deals. [Boston Herald]
  • The owner of a state contractor FM Generator, a company that dealt with the State Police, among other Mass. agencies, was convicted of fraud in 2007 and spent 15 months in prison. [MyFoxBoston.com]

  • Howie Carr was not injured in his accident on Sunday. Bostonist is glad he's fine. Wonder what he'd write if that happened to some unnamed "hack"? [Boston Herald]
  • The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is reviewing Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson's policy of charging inmates $5-a-day to help contribute to their incarceration costs.[WCVB]
  • Lawrence is struggling in its efforts to bring renegade beavers to justice. [Boston Globe]

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Eli Lilly has received a huge criminal fine over their Zyprexa cash cow,add it all up comes to $4.6 billion, in Zyprexa settlements,fines,litigation.
We put Lilly products in our babies they really need to clean up their act and quit with the white wash.
Eli Lilly Zyprexa can cause diabetes
I took Zyprexa a powerful Lilly schizophrenic drug for 4 years it was prescribed to me off-label for post traumatic stress disorder was ineffective costly and gave me diabetes.
This is a powerful drug that can damage a young person physiologically for life.
Please take with caution and learn as much as you can about side effects.

Daniel Haszard http://www.zyprexa-victims.com

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