Pharmacy Benefit Managers as Pharmaceutical Marketers

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 06/16/2009 - 19:00

We posted a number of times about questionable practices Eli Lilly used to market its atypical anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa (olanzapine ).

A post from 2007, with links backward, is here , and our most recent post is here .

The company remains entangled in litigation over its marketing of this drug. That litigation has lead to the release of numerous internal documents that provide quite a view of Lilly's marketing practices. Bloomberg continued its reporting...


 

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