Swiss pharmaceutical drug maker Novartis announced it will pay $678 million to end a long-running civil lawsuit regarding allegations of hundreds of millions of dollars paid in kickbacks to doctors to induce them into prescribing drugs to patients to boost Novartis sales.

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