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The lawsuit highlights two pharmaceutical and medical controversies: whether antidepressants increase suicidal tendencies in children, and if drug companies skew information on their products either by not publicizing all the studies conducted on medicines or editing information on published trials.

"Having doctors prescribe drugs without full knowledge of safety and efficacy is wrong," Spitzer said.

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It also said an internal 1999 Glaxo document showed that the company intended to "manage the dissemination of data in order to minimize any potential negative commercial impact."

Glaxo spokeswoman Mary Anne Rhyne said the company "acted responsibly in conducting the studies in pediatric patients and disseminating results. All of our studies have been made available to the (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and regulators worldwide."

Rhyne also said the studies have been made public in medical meetings, journals and letters to doctors. She said the internal document is "inaccurate" and "doesn't express the overall company position."

Only Prozac, made by Eli Lilly & Co., has been approved to treat depression in children. But doctors can prescribe drugs as they see fit and routinely recommend such medicines for children suffering from depression and other psychological disorders.

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Last year, after reviewing Glaxo's pediatric studies on Paxil, British medical authorities said it should not be used to treat depression in people under 18 because of concerns about potential suicidal behavior. British authorities also said most commonly prescribed antidepressants are not suitable for children because the risks outweigh the benefits.

At an FDA meeting in February to discuss suicidal tendencies in children taking antidepressants, psychiatrist Dr. David Fassler said he was given data and studies he'd never seen before.

"That raised a lot of questions," said Fassler, who is on the board of the American Psychiatric Association. "As a physician, the easier the access to data, the more helpful I can be to my patients."

Fassler said the data he saw didn't show a clear association with suicidal behavior. "More dramatic was how few drugs demonstrated any efficacy," he said, and added that poor study design may have played a role in that.

In March, the FDA said doctors should monitor closely all patients taking antidepressants for signs of suicidal behavior. It also asked the makers of 10 such drugs to add or strengthen suicide-related warnings to their labels. The FDA has commissioned a study to review previous pediatric clinical trials of antidepressants to search for signs of suicidal behavior, and the results are expected this summer.

Meanwhile, doctors are seeking ways to improve the veracity of studies published in journals and improve access to clinical trials conducted by drug companies.

A report prepared for the policy-making body of the American Medical Association recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services create a registry of all clinical trials.

The AMA policy body is set to vote in two weeks on that proposal, which is intended to improve doctors' access to potentially valuable data on drugs they are considering prescribing for their patients.

Currently, drug companies seeking approval for new drugs must give the Food and Drug Administration the data on all clinical trials. But the data - considered to be private property - is not made public by the government, which upon approval, issues only summaries of the information.

The AMA report also recommends journal editors take steps to ensure that articles outline any role the study sponsor had in designing, collecting and analyzing the data. They should also make sure researchers conducting the studies can analyze and publish the data independently of the trial sponsor.

Some data suggests information from drug studies may not be reliable. Last month, a Journal of the American Medical Association article that reviewed 102 clinical trials found that 50 percent of efficacy outcomes and 65 percent of harm outcomes were incompletely reported. The article concluded that trial outcomes are frequently incomplete, biased and inconsistent with protocols.

Currently, when a drug is approved, all the studies reviewed by the FDA to make its decision are made public. That doesn't happen if a drug or an application for a new use is rejected.

Drug companies receive a six-month patent extension if they study their treatment in children, whether or not the medicine is approved for pediatric use. A review of those studies is made public.

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"Negative information is a benefit to us," said Dr. John Sneider, an internist in Illinois who worked on the report for the AMA.

Spitzer said Glaxo's revenues for Paxil prescriptions in children and adolescents totaled $55 million in 2002. The lawsuit alleges the fraud began in 1998 and seeks the return of all profits obtained by Glaxo as a result of conduct alleged in the suit. Paxil was launched in 1993 and has sales of $3 billion last year.

Glaxo's U.S. shares fell $1.38, or 3 percent, to close at $41.39 on the New York Stock Exchange.

NEW YORK Portia de Rossi only believed it was happening when her agent got the good news from the producers. Michael Cera only believed it was happening when the cameras rolled.

It happened all right. After years of clamoring from fans and rumors firing them up while the cast hung on for a green light, "Arrested Development" has risen from the dead with 15 half-hours premiering en masse on Netflix on Sunday at 3:01 a.m. ET.

"Arrested Development" is the cock-eyed comedy blessed with a king's ransom of talent and the twisted vision of its mastermind, Mitch Hurwitz, that aired on Fox for three seasons as a cult favorite, then was canceled for low ratings -- and maybe because it befuddled everyone who wasn't hooked on its lunacy. (Those original three seasons are available for streaming on Netflix, too.)

"I think the show scored some 'cool points' for dying before its time," says Cera. "But there are still a lot more places for it to go."

Yes, "Arrested Development" died young with a beautiful, if funny-to-look-at, corpse. But its fans weren't ready to bury it. And said so.

"Clearly a lot of people DIDN'T like the show," Jason Bateman allows, "so I guess all we were hearing from were those who do -- and that happens to be a brand of people who are not afraid of speaking their minds."

Now reanimated by public outcry, "Arrested" is going new places.

"Mitch and the cast didn't want to do something not as good as the old series," says Bateman (who plays Michael Bluth, the fractious family's would-be mediating presence). "We didn't want to do something lateral or just a retread."

"I think it's new at every opportunity," says Cera (who plays Michael Bluth's straight-arrow son), "while retaining the show's original heart."

The new Netflix season takes the form of what you might call an anthology as it updates viewers, character by character with each episode, on the Bluth family -- that once-wealthy, now-broke and at-each-other's-throats clan squabbling in Newport Beach, 의정부출장안마 - https://www.softanma.com/10-council Calif.

A wicked homage to the scandals of Enron and Tyco and a loopy foreshadowing of the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, "Arrested" premiered in 2003 as a send-up of high-end vanities, greed and corruption as displayed within the Bluth family circle.

Besides de Rossi, Cera and Bateman, the cast of "Arrested" Redux brings back Will Arnett, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica - http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/sitesearch.do?querystring=Jessica Walter, who reconvened in a strategic yet catch-as-catch-can fashion.

"There was no reality where we could get everybody for a full 7- or 8-month period," explains Hurwitz. "That gave birth to the form we came up with for the new series."

The 15 episodes dwell on individual characters during the six-year span from when the series was canceled in 2006 up through 2012. That structure was supposed to make it simple to book each actor for an isolated shooting schedule.

Then Hurwitz took his creativity another step. Since all the episodes are happening simultaneously, he couldn't resist including crossover appearances from other actors in each episode. He wanted characters and story lines from different episodes to intersect. But his ambition made it all the trickier getting all the actors he needed in place for any given episode.

"In a quarter of the scenes, someone is green-screened in," says Hurwitz, who goes on to concede that what began as a solution to a problem of logistics inspired him to create new problems for himself. For instance: "If two characters are having a conversation in one of those characters' episodes and that character's life changes, then in the other character's episode you show the other side of the conversation and the result of it on THAT character."

The overall effect is a sort of hypertext array for the 15 episodes.

"Mitch made it a choose-your-own-adventure season, in that you can watch any episode out of order and it makes sense but, depending on which order you watch them, the series kind of tells a different story," says de Rossi (who plays spoiled materialist sister Lindsay).

Not that "Arrested Development" has ever chosen the simple or obvious path. From the start, it was dense, convoluted and layered, packed with sight gags, self-referential jokes, flashbacks, hand-held cinematography with run-on sequences (promoting improvisation to enhance Hurwitz's scripts) and, of course, its droll, documentary-like narration by Ron Howard, one of the show's executive producers.

On Fox, the show won six Emmys and a Peabody as well as critics' love while always fighting for its life in the ratings. But Hurwitz is philosophical about the obstacles his show has faced. They seem to have given him license to obliterate boundaries that otherwise would have hemmed him in.

"All of the limitations," he says brightly, "are great creative opportunities."

That applied to the new episodes' shooting pace, which Arnett describes as "run-and-gun and crazy."

"But it really worked to our advantage. It was 'OK, get over here, here we go,' and we were right back into it," says Arnett (who plays Lindsay and Michael's older brother, Gob, a preening, mediocre stage magician). "After working together on the series before, all of us just kind of knew what we're doing. There's an implicit trust there. I know that sounds corny, but it's true."

This is a mutual admiration society: The cast heaps praise on Hurwitz, who volleys it back at his actors. And they all join in celebrating "Arrested" viewers, but for whom the show would be long dead and forgotten.

"There are way, way more fans of 'The Big Bang Theory,'" notes David Cross (who plays Tobias - http://www.google.com/search?q=plays%20Tobias&btnI=lucky Funke, a quack-psychiatrist-turned-actor-wannabe). "But they're not as passionate as 'Arrested Development' fans -- because there's more to be passionate about."

"In either a conscious or unconscious way, our audience thinks -- and rightly so -- it's THEIR show," says Jeffrey Tambor (who plays jailbird-patriarch George Bluth Sr.).

"A lot of people have told me over the years that they would build friendships around the show," Howard adds. "They would judge first dates on whether that person likes 'Arrested Development' or not. It was a means of evaluation."

Does that mean there might be children walking around today whose parents were united by "Arrested Development"?

"I think that's fair to assume," Howard says with a laugh.

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The 80-year-old Burnett said she can't believe she is receiving the prize from the Kennedy Center.

"It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington,'' she said in a statement.

Burnett had her breakout on Broadway in "Once Upon a Mattress,'' performing at night in 1959 while also appearing in the mornings on TV's "The Garry Moore Show.'' She is best known for her own long-running variety show, "The Carol Burnett Show.'' It ran from 1967 to 1978, averaging 30 million viewers a week on CBS. Her guest stars included Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Reagan and Betty White.

Burnett was born in San Antonio in 1933. She soon moved to Hollywood with her mother and grandmother and was raised in a small studio apartment. She received an anonymous donation to attend college at UCLA, where she studied journalism and took an acting class.

Burnett moved to New York City, where she staged musical revues and performed in nightclubs. She was spotted by talent bookers and soon performed her rendition of "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles'' on television.

Kennedy Center Chairman David Rubenstein called Burnett a "unique and beloved entertainer.''

"From her television program and appearances, as well as her performances on Broadway and in film, Carol Burnett has entertained generations of fans with her vibrant wit and hilarious characters,'' he said in announcing the prize.

The Mark Twain Prize honors people who have an impact on society in the tradition of Samuel Clemens, better known as Twain, as a social commentator and satirist. Previous honorees include Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Tina Fey, and Ellen DeGeneres, who won last year.

CAIRO -- Yemen's warring parties will meet in Sweden this week for another attempt at talks aimed at halting their catastrophic 3-year-old war, but there are few incentives for major compromises, and the focus is likely to be on firming up a shaky de-escalation.

U.N. officials say they don't expect rapid progress toward a political settlement but hope for at least minor steps that would help to address Yemen's worsening humanitarian crisis.

Both the internationally-recognized government, which is backed by a U.S.-sponsored and Saudi-led coalition, and the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels say they are striving for peace. A Houthi delegation arrived in Stockholm late Tuesday, accompanied by U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths. The government delegation and the head of the rebel delegation were heading to Sweden on Wednesday.

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Confidence-building measures before the talks included a prisoner swap and the evacuation of wounded rebels for medical treatment. The release of funds from abroad by Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to pay state employees in rebel-held territory is also in the works.

Yemeni scholar Hisham Al-Omeisy, who has written extensively about the conflict, said the talks would focus on "de-escalation and starting the political process."

"It's not much, but given the humanitarian situation and toxic political atmosphere currently prevalent in Yemen, it's better than nothing."

The conflict began with the Houthi takeover of the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen in 2014. The Saudi-led coalition went to war with the rebels the following March.

The war has claimed at least 10,000 lives, with experts estimating a much higher toll. Saudi-led airstrikes have hit schools, hospitals and wedding parties, and the Houthis have fired long-range missiles into Saudi Arabia and targeted vessels in the Red Sea.

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"I've heard many say that this is a country on the brink of catastrophe," Beasley said. "This is not a country on the brink of a catastrophe. This is a country that is in a catastrophe."

The mounting humanitarian needs, and outrage over the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, have galvanized international support for ending the war. The United States has called for a cease-fire and reduced some of its logistical aid for the coalition. Iran has also signaled support, urging all sides "to have constructive and responsible participation in the talks."

But previous peace efforts have failed, with neither side willing to compromise.

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"I don't expect much from this round," said Baligh al-Makhlafy, a Yemeni pro-government analyst attending the talks as a technical consultant. "Maybe there'll be some more exchange of prisoners or some progress on the economy, but I don't think the Houthis will leave Hodeida peacefully. They believe they have a powerful card there."

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"By all appearances, FDA would rather be sorry than safe," said Rebecca Roose, director of the Attkisson reports, scientists interviewed by CBS News have expressed such concerns as far back as 2000. Drs. John Gueriguian, Robert Misbin and Leo Lutwak said their FDA bosses ignored their concerns about the diabetes drug Rezulin, which eventually was pulled from the market.FDA scientists have repeatedly proven correct in their ability to flag dangerous drugs, but, as the study shows, are often scared to voice their concerns. Scientists have even been threatened with criminal prosecution for allegedly leaking important safety information to the public, which is precisely what happened to Gueriguian, Misbin and Lutwak. "Eighteen percent does not bode well," said Roose. "We would expect that in an agency that is protecting the public health that the number of scientists not feeling pressure - https://www.sportsblog.com/search?search=feeling%20pressure should be 100 percent. That is a matter of concern."But the FDA repeatedly has denied such pressuring or retaliation against scientists. Today, the agency said it "encourages scientific debate" and "weighs all the evidence" before deciding whether a drug should be on the market."Officials at the Union of Concerned Scientists and at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said requests for the full report were ignored by the FDA and the HHS until PEER filed the FOIA application. Even Rep. Stupak said he had been stymied in his efforts to get a copy of the full report.

CAIRO -- Yemen's warring parties will meet in Sweden this week for another attempt at talks aimed at halting their catastrophic 3-year-old war, but there are few incentives for major compromises, and the focus is likely to be on firming up a shaky de-escalation.

U.N. officials say they don't expect rapid progress toward a political settlement but hope for at least minor steps that would help to address Yemen's worsening humanitarian crisis.

Both the internationally-recognized government, which is backed by a U.S.-sponsored and Saudi-led coalition, and the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels say they are striving for peace. A Houthi delegation arrived in Stockholm late Tuesday, accompanied by U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths. The government delegation and the head of the rebel delegation were heading to Sweden on Wednesday.

More in Yemen's Civil War

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Yemeni scholar Hisham Al-Omeisy, who has written extensively about the conflict, said the talks would focus on "de-escalation and starting the political process."

"It's not much, but given the humanitarian situation and toxic political atmosphere currently prevalent in Yemen, it's better than nothing."

The conflict began with the Houthi takeover of the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen in 2014. The Saudi-led coalition went to war with the rebels the following March.

The war has claimed at least 10,000 lives, with experts estimating a much higher toll. Saudi-led airstrikes have hit schools, hospitals and wedding parties, and the Houthis have fired long-range missiles into Saudi Arabia and targeted vessels in the Red Sea.

The fighting in Yemen has generated the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The executive director of the U.N.'s World Food Program, David Beasley, said Tuesday that 12 million people suffer from "severe hunger."

"I've heard many say that this is a country on the brink of catastrophe," Beasley said. "This is not a country on the brink of a catastrophe. This is a country that is in a catastrophe."

The mounting humanitarian needs, and outrage over the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, have galvanized international support for ending the war. The United States has called for a cease-fire and reduced some of its logistical aid for the coalition. Iran has also signaled support, urging all sides "to have constructive and responsible participation in the talks."

But previous peace efforts have failed, with neither side willing to compromise.

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At the same time, the two main parties could see the other as weakened, tempting them to make maximalist demands. Saudi Arabia has come under heavy U.S. pressure since the killing of Khashoggi, and the Houthis are under intense financial strain.

The impasse is on vivid display in Hodeida, a Red Sea port city where Yemen imports 70 percent of its food and humanitarian aid. Forces backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been trying to capture the city for months, but have been held off by rebels dug in on its outskirts, with neither side willing to back down.

The fighting in and around Hodeida killed nearly 1,500 civilians last month alone, and has displaced at least 134,000 families since June, according to the U.N. office for humanitarian aid.

In an appeal from Yemen, the regional director of the U.N. agency for children called for an immediate end to the years-long war.

"Yemen today is a living hell for millions of children ... there is only one massage to those who are gathering today in Sweden. That is the message of peace for this brutal war ... for that war to stop now," said UNICEF's Geert Cappelaere.

One idea likely to be discussed at the talks is a proposal for the rebels to hand over Hodeida to some type of U.N. administration. The two sides might also discuss further prisoner releases.

But the Houthis are unlikely to agree to withdraw from territory or lay down their arms, as the Yemeni government has repeatedly demanded. And Hadi's administration is unlikely to agree to a power-sharing arrangement that would grant the Houthis a larger role in government, which was one of the original aims of the rebellion.

"I don't expect much from this round," said Baligh al-Makhlafy, a Yemeni pro-government analyst attending the talks as a technical consultant. "Maybe there'll be some more exchange of prisoners or some progress on the economy, but I don't think the Houthis will leave Hodeida peacefully. They believe they have a powerful card there."

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"Each of the companies, all of them, are doing exactly the same thing: They're charging substantially more in the United States than they are elsewhere," Joseph Alioto, the San Francisco attorney representing the pharmacies, told KCBS Radio's Matt Bigler. "Almost all of the countries of the world are in one price range and the United States is 300 to 400 times greater."

Alioto filed the suit in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland. The suit alleges the pharmaceutical companies have hurt the pharmacies' bottom lines by violating California's antitrust and unfair business practices laws.

"While Pfizer hasn't had an opportunity to review this lawsuit in detail, any allegations of price fixing are totally without merit," said Bryant Haskins, a spokesman for New York-based Pfizer Inc., which is named in the lawsuit. "Importation of pharmaceutical products into the U.S. market is both illegal and dangerous because it increases the opportunity to introduce counterfeit or unapproved drugs into the distribution system."

The California lawsuit comes at a time when pharmaceutical companies are coming under increased scrutiny over their drug costs and marketing practices. Many of the same drugs sold in the United States are available in Canada and elsewhere for fractions of the retail prices.

"I get people that are going online and checking prices and saying 'Wow, I can buy this drug up in Canada for a third of the price you're charging me here,' and I don't have anything to respond other than the fact that I say, 'Jeez, you better go do it,'" said San Francisco pharmacist John Gelinas.

The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly denied requests to import drugs from Canada, where the government controls prices and drugs are less expensive. It says that would open the door, through Canada, to drugs from other countries where quality control isn't as stringent as in the U.S.

Alioto says there's an overall conspiracy to create an artificial trade barrier around the U.S.

"The smoking gun obviously is very obvious, and that is the extreme price differential on the same drug," he told KCBS-AM.

The state of Vermont has filed a lawsuit against the federal agency over the issue.

Last month, Schering-Plough Corp. agreed to pay $346 million to settle charges that it paid a kickback to a health insurer in an attempt to evade a law requiring it to give its lowest prices to Medicaid, the government health program for the poor. Bayer has paid $257 million and GlaxoSmithKline has paid $86.7 million to settle similar allegations that they failed to give their best prices to Medicaid.

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As of two years ago, more than one third of FDA scientists have some doubts about the process for approving new drugs, the survey found.

And two-thirds of the FDA scientists surveyed were not highly confident that the FDA "adequately monitors safety of prescription drugs" once on the market. One in five said they'd been "pressured to approve" a drug "despite reservations about its safety" or other concerns, as CBS's Attkisson reports.

The survey was conducted by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General. It comes in the wake of safety concerns forcing removal from the market of Vioxx, an arthritis drug, and congressional testimony by Dr. David Graham, an FDA scientist, that the agency mishandled safety concerns about five other drugs.

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The pharmacies accuse the 15 drug makers of illegally conspiring to charge inflated prices in the United States while barring pharmacies from buying the makers' drugs at lower prices outside the country.

"Each of the companies, all of them, are doing exactly the same thing: They're charging substantially more in the United States than they are elsewhere," Joseph Alioto, the San Francisco attorney representing the pharmacies, told KCBS Radio's Matt Bigler. "Almost all of the countries of the world are in one price range and the United States is 300 to 400 times greater."

Alioto filed the suit in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland. The suit alleges the pharmaceutical companies have hurt the pharmacies' bottom lines by violating California's antitrust and unfair business practices laws.

"While Pfizer hasn't had an opportunity to review this lawsuit in detail, any allegations of price fixing are totally without merit," said Bryant Haskins, a spokesman for New York-based Pfizer Inc., which is named in the lawsuit. "Importation of pharmaceutical products into the U.S. market is both illegal and dangerous because it increases the opportunity to introduce counterfeit or unapproved drugs into the distribution system."

The California lawsuit comes at a time when pharmaceutical companies are coming under increased scrutiny over their drug costs and marketing practices. Many of the same drugs sold in the United States are available in Canada and elsewhere for fractions of the retail prices.

"I get people that are going online and checking prices and saying 'Wow, I can buy this drug up in Canada for a third of the price you're charging me here,' and I don't have anything to respond other than the fact that I say, 'Jeez, you better go do it,'" said San Francisco pharmacist John Gelinas.

The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly denied requests to import drugs from Canada, where the government controls prices and drugs are less expensive. It says that would open the door, through Canada, to drugs from other countries where quality control isn't as stringent as in the U.S.

Alioto says there's an overall conspiracy to create an artificial trade barrier around the U.S.

"The smoking gun obviously is very obvious, and that is the extreme price differential on the same drug," he told KCBS-AM.

The state of Vermont - http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=Vermont has filed a lawsuit against the federal agency over the issue.

Last month, Schering-Plough Corp. agreed to pay $346 million to settle charges that it paid a kickback to a health insurer in an attempt to evade a law requiring it to give its lowest prices to Medicaid, the government health program for the poor. Bayer has paid $257 million and GlaxoSmithKline has paid $86.7 million to settle similar allegations that they failed to give their best prices to Medicaid.

Other companies named in the lawsuit include Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Abbott Laboratories.

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