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Inside GET-THIN
It's a Friday afternoon and the movie "Moneyball" is playing in a medical clinic waiting room at 9001 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. No one is there to watch it, just rows of vacant chairs. Perhaps it's just an off day, but on two other recent visits,...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Brad Sherman, Advertising, Highway Transportation, Weight
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Allergan profit rises 45%
Allergan Inc.'s first-quarter profit grew 45 percent on greater sales of Botox and eye-care products, the drugmaker said Wednesday. However, its shares fell after the company offered a somewhat disappointing second-quarter forecast. The company said...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Earnings Forecasts, Drugs and Medicines, Health, Botox (drug)
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1-800-GET-THIN president's suit against Times columnist dismissed
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused a columnist for The Times of illegally recording conversations with the president of the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing firm.
The company is known for its ubiquitous billboards plastered along Southland freeways,...Tags: Laws, Corporate Crime, Companies and Corporations, Food and Drug Administration, Fraud
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State launches Lap-Band investigation
The California Department of Insurance is investigating the business practices of Lap-Band surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign, according to insurer Aetna Inc.
The insurance giant said in a statement that it was...Tags: Marketing, Criminal Laws, Advertising, Prosecution, Criminals
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1-800-GET-THIN centers criticized
Weight-loss surgeons from across the United States are attempting to distance themselves from surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising for Lap-Band surgery.
In a letter to House members considering a congressional investigation of...Tags: Henry A Waxman, John D Dingell, Hospitals and Clinics, Weight, Food and Drug Administration
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Clinics halt Lap-Band surgeries
Two clinics tied to 1-800-GET-THIN have temporarily halted Lap-Band weight-loss surgeries after the device's maker said it would no longer sell to companies affiliated with the massive advertising campaign.
The two brothers identified in lawsuits as...Tags: Laws, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Food and Drug Administration, Music
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Allergan halts Lap-Band sales to 1-800-GET-THIN clinics
The maker of the Lap-Band will no longer sell its product to clinics affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company — a blow to Southern California surgery centers that have built an empire implanting the weight-loss devices in people...Tags: Corporate Crime, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Food and Drug Administration, Weight Loss
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Doctor accused of 'gross negligence' in death of Lap-Band patient
The Medical Board of California has faulted a doctor in the 2010 death of a Lap-Band patient who had surgery at a clinic affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign, filing charges that could cause him to lose his license to practice.
The board has...Tags: Laws, Food and Drug Administration, Anesthesiology, Marketing, Health
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Doctor accuses 1-800-GET-THIN president of identity theft
A Marina del Rey anesthesiologist has filed a lawsuit accusing the president of the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing firm of identity theft for using the doctor's name to establish a corporation that billed insurers without his permission.
Dr. Martin E. Flynn...Tags: Laws, Food and Drug Administration, Companies and Corporations, Medical Specialization, Anesthesiology
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Inaction by regulators as weight loss surgery allegations mount
Several current or former workers for the people behind those 1-800-GET-THIN ads have made allegations about this weight-loss enterprise that government regulators should have gotten to the bottom of long ago. Taken together, the allegations are that...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Cosmetic Procedures, Marketing, Weight, Insurance
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Lap-Band maker issues own advertising guidelines
Money & CompanyLap-Band maker Allergan Inc. is distancing itself from surgical centers at the center of a new controversy over misleading advertising of the weigh-loss device. A spokeswoman for the Irvine company said it issued its own voluntary advertising guidelines... -
FDA's 1-800-GET-THIN warning follows L.A. County official's complaint
Money & CompanyThe Food and Drug Administration has ordered 1-800-GET-THIN, the company behind the advertising campaign for Lap-Band weight-loss surgery, to take better steps to warn consumers about risks of such procedures. The move comes one year after Los Angeles...
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