Page 39 - Big Pharma and the Constant Gardener
P. 39
LANDMARK
PUBLICATION: PAST,
PRESEN T, AND
FUTURE
January 2008: Publication of The Myth of
Alzheimer’s: What You Aren’t Being Told About
Today’s Most Dreaded Diagnosis, written by Peter Whitehouse, MD,
PhD, and Daniel George, PhD, M.Sc.
ELI LIL LY PLEADS GUI LT Y:
MARKETING ZYPREXA TO
ELDERS WITH DEMENTIA
In 2009, Eli Lilly pled guilty to criminal misdemeanor and settled
for $1.42 billion, for illegally marketing Zyprexa to physicians for
“off-label” use with elders with dementia. According to the Justice