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"astrazeneca": {
    "names": [
        "AstraZeneca",
        "Astra",
        "Zeneca",
        "AstraZeneca plc",
        "AZ",
        "AZN",
        "Astra AB",
        "Zenenca Group"
    ],
    "comment": "AstraZeneca is a pharmaceutical company that has remained active in Russia during international sanctions [1], ran a negligently managed antipsychotic trial resulting in a patient's death [2], and falsely marketed drugs with serious side effects as safe, including a cholesterol medication [3] and a cancer drug linked to multiple deaths [4]. The company has faced major legal actions for illegally marketing the unsafe antipsychotic drug Seroquel to vulnerable populations [5], filing false claims with U.S. government health programs [6], misrepresenting study results for a heart drug [7], bribing doctors in China and Russia [8], and engaging in price fixing and anti-competitive drug pricing schemes [9].",
    "sources": {
        "1": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/astrazeneca-doubled-exports-from-sweden-to-russia-after-start-of-war-report-b2295772.html",
        "2": "https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/dan-markingson-drug-trial-astrazeneca/",
        "3": "https://www.drug-injury.com/druginjurycom/2005/05/side_effects_oc.html",
        "4": "https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/16/business/astrazeneca-alters-cancer-drug-label.html",
        "5": "https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Health/astrazeneca-pay-520-million-illegally-marketing-seroquel-schizophrenia/story?id=10488647",
        "6": "https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_371.htm",
        "7": "https://bmjgroup.com/bmj-finds-inaccuracies-in-key-studies-for-astrazenecas-blockbuster-heart-drug-ticagrelor/",
        "8": "https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/08/31/astrazeneca-bribes-china-russia/",
        "9": "https://www.law360.com/articles/176078/astrazeneca-to-pay-103m-to-settle-awp-claims"
    },
    "sourceNotes": {
        "1": "still active in russia",
        "2": "Dan Markingson died in a negligently run antipsychotic trial",
        "3": "Marketed anticholesterol drug with serious side effects as safe",
        "4": "continued to sell cancer drug that caused multiple deaths",
        "5": "Fined $520 million for illegally marketed the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel to children and elderly patients",
        "6": "company caused false and fraudulent claims to be filed with the Medicare, TriCare, Department of Defense and Railroad Retirement Board Medicare programs as a result of AstraZeneca’s fraudulent drug pricing schemes and sales and marketing misconduct",
        "7": "Lied about results of study of new heart drug",
        "8": "AstraZeneca to pay $5.5 million for bribing doctors in China and Russia",
        "9": "price fixing and anticompetetive inflation of drug prices"
    },
    "tags": [
        "pharmaceuticals"
    ],
    "score": 24,
    "ownedBy": [],
    "logoUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/AstraZeneca.svg",
    "siteUrl": "https://astrazeneca.com/",
    "updatedAt": "2025-08-30T14:45:56.267Z"
},