[Pharm-policy] Miami Herald: candidate linked to troubled drug firm

[James Love]

http://www.miamiherald.com/content/today/news/broward/digdocs/081724.htm

Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000, in the Miami Herald 

 Bloom linked to troubled drug firm

 Shaw accuses foe of helping stall sale of low-price drug

 BY WILLIAM YARDLEY 
 wyardley@herald.com 

 Republican Rep. Clay Shaw's campaign on Tuesday leveled charges about
Democratic challenger Elaine  Bloom's role in running a generic drug
company the federal government says profited illegally by  denying
consumers a popular high blood-pressure medication. 

 Bloom resigned from the board of directors of Andrx in May, two months
after the Federal Trade Commission accused the Fort Lauderdale company
of accepting nearly $90 million from a brand-name drug manufacturer,
Hoechst, to delay marketing a generic equivalent of Hoechst's drug
Cardizem CD.

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