Rochester, NY 7/29/2009 1:48:51 PM
After Hours - Pfizer Inc. PFE, Allegation From Ex-Employee said Pfizer Unit Marketed Drug Illegally
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Pfizer Inc.’s Warner-Lambert Unit created a list of 13 ailments that its epilepsy medicine Neurontin could treat. The former employee further testifies that it is part of the company’s promotion of the drug for unapproved uses.
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“I was trained from day one” to market the drug illegally, David Franklin testified. Franklin, who worked as a medical liaison at the Parke-Davis division of Warner-Lambert, said he encouraged doctors to prescribe Neurontin for uses beyond those approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“My job was to promote Neurontin and motivate doctors to experiment” on patients, he said today in federal court in Boston. After being hired as a medical liaison, “I was selling drugs,” he said. The uses promoted were from the “snake-oil list” of 13 medical conditions, said Franklin, a microbiologist.
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