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Ziwar Karabatak

  • $15,500
  • Location: DAYTON, Ohio
  • Payment for: Speaker Information
  • Payment for: Speaker
  • Reported: Jan. to Dec. 2011

Notable drugs produced by GlaxoSmithKline include:

  • Advair (asthma, copd, chronic bronchitis, emphysema)
  • Lovaza (high triglyceride levels)
  • Flovent (asthma, copd)
  • Avodart (prostate enlargement)
  • Lamictal (epilepsy, bipolar disorder)
  • Ventolin (asthma, bronchospasms, reversible obstructive airway disease)
  • Coreg (chronic heart failure, heart attack, hypertension)
  • Arixtra (deep vein thrombosis, acute pulmonary embolism)
  • Imigran/Imitrex (migraine, cluster headaches)
  • Valtrex (herpes, cold sores)
  • Treximet (migraine)
  • Wellbutrin (depression)

Important notes

The reports include both the name of the health provider who performed the service and, when reported, the entity paid. They may be different.

Source: GlaxoSmithKline. ProPublica last downloaded this record on Oct. 17, 2012.

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