Who thinks you should take Levaquin? Johnson & Johnson does!
15 Jan
That is whether you need it or not. Today the US Government filed a lawsuit against Levaquin’s maker, J&J, for paying kickbacks to one of the country’s largest pharmacy chains, Omnicare. It says Omnicare was given illegal payments in the 10s of millions to promote its drugs over competitors.
The government cited a company statement from September 2001 describing Levaquin’s market share at Omnicare’s pharmacies increasing to 66.4 percent from 19.2 percent at the end of 1998. Meanwhile, the market share of a competing antibiotic, Cipro, plunged to around 28 percent, from 80 percent. Apparently, this wasn’t by accident.
I’m sure there’s more than a few limping and suffering Americans who’d like to show their gratitude to the folks at Omnicare and J&J for their business acumen.
Read more about the booming successes of J&J and Levaquin here or here.
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