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Payment Disclosure
GELS-BIRCH, CATHERINE
- $3,956
- paid by Eli Lilly »
- Listed practitioner: CATHERINE GELS-BIRCH
- Location: BREWER, Maine
- Payment for:
Advising/consulting & international education programs
- Payment for: Advising/consulting & international education programs
- Reported: Jan. to Dec. 2011 Other Healthcare Professionals
- Search for GELS-BIRCH, CATHERINE in Prescriber Checkup, our database of prescribing patterns within Medicare's drug program.
Notable drugs produced by Eli Lilly include:
- Cymbalta (depression, generalized anxiety disorder, diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, chronic osteoarthritis pain, chronic low back pain)
- Humalog (diabetes)
- Alimta (lung cancer, mesothelioma)
- Evista (osteoporosis, lowering risk of invasive breast cancer)
- Cialis (erectile dysfunction, benign prostatic hyperplasia)
- Humulin (diabetes)
- Forteo (osteoporosis)
- Strattera (ADHD)
- Effient (prevents strokes and heart attacks in patients who need to have a heart procedure called percutaneous coronary intervention)
- Glucagon (hypoglycemia, diabetes)
- Erbitux (colon cancer, advanced head and neck cancer)
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: Eli Lilly. ProPublica last downloaded this record on Oct. 17, 2012.
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