Croatia charges hundreds in drugs firm corruption probe
The authorities in Croatia have charged a pharmaceutical company and 364 people - most of them reportedly doctors - for allegedly rigging the drugs market.Senior managers at the drugs firm Farmal bribed a network of doctors and pharmacists to prescribe the company's products, officials said.They have been charged with bribery, abuse of power and corruption.Local media said the indictment was the biggest of its kind in the country's judicial history.BriberyCorrespondents say the health system could have collapsed if all the doctors implicated were sacked. There are around 5,000 doctors in Croatia.Many of those charged were ...
Source: PharmaGossip - December 28, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
InBar: The Next 'In' Thing for Diabetes Snacks?
Don't Google the InBar. If you do, you'll find the Indiana State Bar Association, International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, an Israeli kibbutz in Galilee, or a night club in Croatia. You won't find the D-friendly InBar snack. Not yet, at least.... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - January 30, 2013 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Wil Dubois Source Type: blogs
Coming Off Medications Guide - In Bosnian/Croatian!
The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs was recently translated in Bosnian!
Sarajevo's Metanoia group brings together visionary professionals, psychology students, and people diagnosed with extreme states to change mental health treatments and community response. Icarista Will Hall recently visited to support their work.
You can download the new guide here
Get in touch with the group in Sarajevo on facebook here
Update:Croatia's activist and support group Ludruga just published a Croatian version. You can download it here; printer version is here. :
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Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - October 14, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: advocacy, rights & politics alternative treatments coming off meds/withdrawal icarus downloads icarus organizational local groups news popular education materials Source Type: blogs
News from Germany: Organ Transplantation and “Research Donations” – Round 2?
On July 21, 2012, the Bundespraesident, the German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and the German Health Minister D. Bahr finally signed the “The Act to Amend the German Transplantation Act” (“Transplantationsgesetz”, “TPG”. It is published in theFederal Law Gazette Number 1, BGBl. I 35/2012, p. 1601 and became effective on August 1, 2012. The act has been described here atPredictER News, July 20, 2012.From day one, the act has had its critics, in large part, because of the organ transplantation scandal uncovered at the University of Goettingen (Germany) in June 2012. An organ transplantation specialist ...
Source: PredictER Blog - August 2, 2012 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Studies Show Correlation Between Storks, Babies, Diabetes
San Francisco, April 1, 2008 -- Two new studies out of Croatia show strong evidence that residents of areas high in stork and baby populations also show high incidence of diabetes, and patients living in the affected areas also experience high blo... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - April 1, 2008 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Amy Tenderich Source Type: blogs
