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Unfair Marketing Activities Of Prescription Drugs Temodar, PegIntron And Intron A

By Jeffrey I. Carton on

Meiselman, Denlea, Packman, Carton & Eberz  P.C. is currently investigating a potential class action against Merck & Co. ("Merck") concerning the drugs Temodar, PegIntron, and Intron A.  As recently reported by the Wall Street Journal (August 9, 2011), the Justice Department has issued a subpoena to Merck as part of a criminal investigation into the marketing and selling activities relating to the three drugs.  Temodar is prescribed for brain tumors; PegIntron is prescribed for hepatitis C; and Intron A is prescribed for certain cancers and other conditions.  From 2004 to 2009, the drugs were marketed by Schering-Plough, which Merck subsequently acquired.  Sales figures for the three drugs are in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

If you or someone you know has been prescribed Temodar, PegIntron or Intron A, you may have been a victim of unfair marketing activities.  Similarly, if you are a physician who issued prescriptions for those drugs, you may also have been the victim of deceptive sales practices.  Please contact us as soon as possible to discuss your legal options.

  • courtney rowe

    my father was giving the medicine for a year or more… He tried killing himself multiple times. He is now going to go to a home in new hampshire after his last attempt of suicide has left him with a 2 second memory… Leading up to this, he was in a state of psychosis.. I am from upstate ny.. He was delcared ‘cured’ of hep c but yet was so paranoid and depressed. It made no sense. He really went off the wall.. I believe that the medicine he was giving should have been giving to him at a hospitial and treated like a chemotherapy since that is what it is.. They would send him the medicine, it is so uncontrolled. I believe if he was under better watch that this wouldnt be like this. He would of been better off with the hepatitus.