Drug Maker Ending 2 Years of Probation
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A two-year probation for Bristol-Myers Squibb ends Thursday, freeing the company from federal supervision after a major accounting scandal and other misconduct.
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Tom Sizemore's 16-month prison sentence for violating probation in a drug case was dramatically reduced Tuesday.
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A Norwalk doctor accused in a vaccine fraud case has been fined $30,000 and has been placed on probation for two years. Doctor Jorge Elias had been charged with billing Medicaid and other
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Biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Inc. reported Tuesday that clinical data on its hepatitis B treatment Hepsera showed that the drug reduced the virus to undetectable levels in more than half the patients on the drug after more than two years.
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The company has decided to leave the public markets.
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A Los Angeles judge brought an early end to Courtney Love's probation on drug and assault charges on Monday, telling the tearful singer she had earned it by completing a substance abuse program.
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Former Houston Astro Ken Caminiti admitted violating his probation on a drug conviction two years ago, but walked out of the Harris County Jail on Tuesday a free man, determined to start a drug-free life.
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William Lerach, a former partner at a prestigious New York law firm, was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison for his role in a lucrative kickback scheme involving class-action lawsuits against some of the nation's biggest corporations. Mr. Lerach, 61, was also sentenced to two years probation, fined $250,000 and ordered to complete 1,000 [...].
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Merck &amp; Co. withdrew its Vioxx painkiller, which generated $2.5 billion in sales last year, because of a link to heart attacks and strokes.
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A U.S. judge sentenced two former  Enron energy traders involved in the scheme to manipulate  California energy prices to two years' probation and a $10,000  fine each on Wednesday after they cooperated with authorities  in the case.
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A FORMER heroin dealer who tended a huge cannabis farm was jailed for four years and eight months yesterday.  The High Court in Glasgow heard that Joseph Kerr, 50, was looking after nearly 1000 cannabis plants in a farm in Bishopton, Renfrewshire.
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A major drugs firm has been named and shamed over "serious breaches" of the industry's code of conduct.
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A woman pleaded no contest and was sentenced to probation Friday on charges she left her 2-year-old daughter alone for 2 1/2 weeks while she was in jail.
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Actor Tom Sizemore has his 16-month prison sentence for violating probation in a drugs case reduced by half.
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District inmates held in federal prisons are now eligible to have a year shaved off their sentences for completing an intensive drug-treatment program.
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Â· Internal FO papers fatally undermine prosecution Â· Anger that case was pursued for two years
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The discontinuation of Exubera, an inhaled insulin, is another black eye for Pfizer, the worldâs biggest drug company, which has sustained a series of recent reversals.