{"id":15611,"date":"2012-10-18T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/bambini-riempiti-di-ormoni-in-cambio-di-una-borsa-di-pelle\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T08:30:00","slug":"bambini-riempiti-di-ormoni-in-cambio-di-una-borsa-di-pelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/bambini-riempiti-di-ormoni-in-cambio-di-una-borsa-di-pelle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abKids filled with hormones in exchange for a leather bag\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genoa \u2013 The children's health was just worth a leather bag<\/b>, or an "all paid" conference in Japan or North America and a few thousand euros or, again, the research contract for the preferred PhD student.<\/p>\n

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Gifts, favors and money which, according to the public prosecutors of Busto Arsizio and Rimini, managers and scientific representatives of the Sandoz pharmaceutical company <\/b>they would have used to bribe five university doctors in Genoa and 62 others throughout Italy and convince them to prescribe growth hormones in overdose.<\/p>\n

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The specialists investigated in Genoa are Roberto Gastaldi<\/b>, operating at the \u201cGaslini\u201d Pediatric Institute, Mohamad Mahmoud Maghnie<\/b>, in service at the Department of Endocrine Diseases of the same hospital in Quarto, Teresa DeToni<\/b>, at the \u201cGaslini\u201d pediatric clinic, Francesco Minute<\/b>, doctor working at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of the University of Genoa, and Mara Boschetti<\/b>PhD student at the same university. Their offices and studios in the hospital and their homes were searched yesterday morning by the carabinieri of the anti-sophistication and health unit. The military seized clinical documentation regarding the introduction of more than 28 patients on therapy with Omnitrope, a growth hormone produced by Sandoz.<\/p>\n

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It was the Novartis group company itself that provided the investigators with the list of gifts, alleged bribes to Genoese doctors<\/b>, donated by the scientific rep Gianfranco De Bernardi and by the Area Manager for north-west Italy of the Biopharmaceuticals Division, Raffaella Olga Speranza Giuliano. In a confidential memorandum of Sandoz, dated February 2, 2012 and in a disciplinary dispute of last April 3, it is written, for example: \u00abMs Giuliano allegedly (together with Mr. De Bernardi) "conceded" between September and December 2009 to Dr. Gastaldi a contribution of an unspecified amount aimed at paying the expenses relating to participation in the ESPE congress held in New York from 9 to 12 September 2009 and participation in the SIEDP congress held in Naples from 5 to 7 November 2009, as consideration for the inclusion of 10 new patients in therapy with Omnitrope". <\/p>\n

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Again, according to the information that last spring the carabinieri of the Nas<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genova – La salute dei bambini valeva giusto una borsa in pelle, oppure un convegno “tutto pagato” in Giappone o in nord America e qualche migliaio di euro o, ancora, il contratto da ricercatrice per la dottoranda preferita. Regalie, favori e denari che, secondo le procure di Busto Arsizio e Rimini, dirigenti e informatori scientifici …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}