Deadline for claims in the $125 Million settlement of the AWP litigation is this week! You may be eligible for payment if you received a physician-administered drug between January 1, 1991 and January 1, 2005 for the treatment of different types of can

“And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day —" That call to transparency President Barack Obama issued in his inaugural address Tuesday seems to be

PAL extends and enthusiastic welcome to Voluntary Hospitals House Staff Benefits Plan (VHHSBP), Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR), SEIU Healthcare to our Coalition. Voluntary Hospitals House Staff Benefits Plan, is a union health and welfare fund

While some folks in Washington are picking out their finest for the Inaugural Ball next week, officials at the FDA are putting on their PR flak jackets and wielding their rule-making pens. There’s no shortage in the supply of FDA news in the final days of

With the change of the calendar year, Big Pharma has rolled out its New Year’s resolutions like the rest of us, most prominently the revised PhRMA  voluntary code of conduct, which aims to stop the trinketeering, lavish meals, and travel payments to presc

As we reported last month in "Unions in PAL Coalition win $350 Million settlement in McKesson class action," PAL coalition members AFSCME District Council 37 Health and Security Plan and New England Carpenters Benefits Fund were among the plaintiffs who h

to Ed Silverman, reporter-king of the Pharmalot blog, who signed off today after two years writing the heard-it-here-first pharma industry blog.  Even though Pharmalot, Ed’s own invention and masterwork, was an exemplar of how the news business could adap

Amidst all the merrymaking of the past weeks, here’s what PostScript was reading... FDA: a fixer-upper? Obama and the FDA – will he fix it, and when? Those are the questions Tribune reporter Noam Levey asks about the troubled agency and where its reforms

A landmark settlement was recently announced in a class action lawsuit against the McKesson corporation (NYSE: MCK). We’ve reported frequently on this case in the past, because two of our coalition members are among the lead plaintiffs in the case, the N