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Copaxone Promos Can’t List Risks Product Doesn’t Have, Especially Incorrectly, FDA Warns

The first warning letter of the year from FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion goes to Teva for web pages and materials displayed at a medical conference that overstated the safety and efficacy of its MS drug Copaxone.

In its eagerness to take on the likes of Novartis AG’s oral multiple sclerosis treatment Gilenya (fingolomod), Teva Neuroscience Inc. prepared an exhibit for the American Academy of Neurology meeting last year inaccurately listing a number of risks that it said its relapsing-remitting MS drug Copaxone (glatiramer acetate) doesn’t have but other MS drugs do, FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion says in a warning letter.

The offending exhibit panels included a table suggesting “that Copaxone is not associated with immunosuppression/infections, decrease in pulmonary...

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