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Dec 24, 2009

GE Healthcare is suing a physician for libel, In the Pipeline's Derek Lowe says. The doctor, Henrik Thomsen, gave talk at a conference in Oxford during which he noted a potential association between the company's NMR contrast agent and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis. "They claim that his conference presentation was defamatory, and continue to insist on damages even though regulatory authorities in both the UK and in the rest of Europe have reviewed the evidence and issued warnings about Omniscan's use in patients with kidney trouble," Lowe writes.

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