The OxyContin maker filed its long-awaited restructuring plan in bankruptcy court. Revenue from the new company would go exclusively to abating the opioid crisis. In a filing that signifies the beginning of the end of the country’s most notorious manufacturer of prescription opioids, Purdue Pharma submitted its bankruptcy restructuring plan …
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WASHINGTON — Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty on Tuesday to criminal charges that it misled the federal government about sales of its blockbuster painkiller OxyContin, the prescription opioid that helped fuel a national addiction crisis. The admission brought a formal end to an extensive federal investigation that led to a multibillion-dollar …
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A volunteer received an injection in July as part of a study of a possible Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.Credit…Hans Pennink/Associated Press A group of drug companies competing with one another to be among the first to develop coronavirus vaccines are planning to …
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