Anne Peters is a diabetes expert who runs a clinic for Los Angeles County and is affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
About five years ago, she told the Times, she helped change the formulary for Los Angeles County so that patients in her clinic would get prescriptions for Takeda’s Actos rather than Avandia.
“The Avandia people, it was just so surprising, they asked me what I wanted to keep Avandia on the formulary,” she says. So she asked Glaxo to establish a database at the clinic that would track the outcomes of patients on both drugs.
The database would have cost several thousand dollars, and a Glaxo rep replied: “That’s all you want? Other doctors ask to go to the Caribbean.”
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