PharmaGossip kindly called my story from yesterday evening, "Rost's first scoop at BrandweekNRX ."
If you haven't read the article yet, go to "Pfizer terminates three executives in HIV division - Ropes & Gray investigates allegations about illegal marketing."
And don't miss Pharmalot's take on these latest revelations, in "Pfizer Managers Leave Troubled HIV Division." Ed Silverman has many useful links in this great post, and gives more background on the story.
When I called Ed and told him about this latest twist in Pfizer's maraviroc saga, he kept repeating one word: "Unbelievable."
Finally, the Carlat Psychiatry Blog writes a thoughtful post with the headline "Pfizer: With Corruption this Complicated, You're Bound to get Caught" summarizing many of the recent events in this affair. The Carlat blog concludes, "When your marketing plan is always teetering on the edge of corruption, you're gonna get burned. It's only a matter of time."
- Peter Rost, M.D. is a former VP of Pfizer and the author of Killer Drug and The Whistleblower.
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