"You take your life in your own hands by being out on the road right now," said Karnes County Sheriff David Jalufka, as Hailey Konnath reports for the Houston Chronicle. Jalufka's talking about the Eagle Ford Shale traffic - 18-wheelers and oil tankers and other...
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Month: July 2012
Sales Reps Will Make ‘Ungodly Sums,’ Say GlaxoSmithKline Drug Company Executives
Last week, we referenced drug company CEO Andrew Witty's statement that "mistakes were made" in regard to the way his company, GlaxoSmithKline, used to market its drugs. According to Witty, that's all in the past - the off-label promotion, the lack of responding to...
Texas Troopers Only Pull over a Small Percentage of Eagle Ford Shale 18-Wheelers
As Joe Conger reports for KENS 5 San Antonio, Texas state troopers are cracking down on Eagle Ford Shale 18-wheelers, putting them out-of-service for safety violations like improper truck maintenance and truck driver hours-of-service violations. "A lot of companies...
Glaxosmithkline Chief Says ‘Mistakes Were Made’
As Katie Thomas and Michael S. Schmidt report for the New York Times, GSK must pay $3 billion for criminal health care fraud related to illegal promotion of drugs (Paxil and Wellbutrin) and failure to report safety information about another drug (Avandia). Avandia...