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Public Relations Firm Retained by Schering-Plough Spars with Consumer Advocate.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2000 by Silverman, Ed
Oct. 27--A public relations firm retained by Schering-Plough Corp. is threatening to sue a consumer advocate who openly criticized its role in running a nonprofit group, formed to raise awareness of an illness treated by one of the company's best-selling drugs.
Attorneys for Perry Communications Group, which Schering-Plough hired to organize a Hepatitis C Coalition in California, sent a letter to Brian Klein, who heads the Hepatitis C Action and Advocacy Coalition, warning him to "cease and desist" from accusing the firm of conducting what he claims are "unethical and misleading" activities.
In e-mail messages sent recently to numerous people, Klein said Perry acted inappropriately by surreptitiously organizing the coalition. The Food and Drug...
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