Pharma Blood Marketers Sued for Malpractice
The husband of a woman who died of breast cancer is suing Dr. Eduardo Lasalvia-Prisco and several others who marketed a bogus cancer treatment called Pharma Blood. The treatment, which cost $10,000, was said to be a vaccine made from the patient’s blood. The lawsuit charges that Prisco failed to disclose the fact that Pharma Blood was unproven and that by the time that its ineffectiveness was obvious, it was to late to benefit from standard treatment. The complaint, shown below, was amended to add Felix Cotto-Ortiz, Jose Muratti-Sepulvida, and Rumen Otero-Lopez as defendants. In 2008, the three of them pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of conspiring to defraud the FDA. When the civil case was tried, the jury awarded damages of $500,000. The defendants …
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