Privately held US drugmaker Purdue Pharma has received permission from a US bankruptcy court to sell its consumer health business, Avrio Health, for $397 million to a...
US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson, have finalized a long-negotiated nationwide...
At the end of a long-running controversial case, US drugmaker Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, has won court approval for a multibillion...
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has agreed to plead guilty to three criminal charges in federal court in New Jersey for its part in fueling an opioid crisis in the US. The...
08.01.2020
- The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an unusual case filed by the state of Arizona against Purdue Pharma’s owner family Sackler. Arizona authorities alleged in a petition that...
16.10.2019
- Controversial US opioid producer Purdue Pharma and its founders, the Sackler family, have won a temporary litigation pause to facilitate progress in restructuring the company into...
17.09.2019
- Purdue Pharma, the drugmaker under fire for triggering an opioid crisis in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court after reaching a tentative...
10.05.2012
- A U.S. Senate panel has launched a probe of possible links between three drugmakers and nonprofit medical groups that advocated for increasing the use of prescription painkillers...
