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By Ann Tracy on May 15, 2010
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which was already the focus of controversy over whether it ignored the suicide risk of its antidepressant Paxil, has found itself linked to the Catholic Church’s cover-up of child abuse in the death of a priest who took the drug.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Abuse Scandal, Catholic Church, Catholic Priest, Child Abuse, Controversy, Federal Judge, Glaxo, GlaxoSmithKline, Gsk, Jim Edwards, Judge David, Paxil, Paxil Lawsuit, Pharma, Priest Commits Suicide, Rick Tucker, Seminary, Sex Abuse, Suicide Risk, Tucker Case |
By Ann Tracy on December 16, 2009
GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C., the world’s second-biggest
drugmaker, begins a trial in Philadelphia next week in what may be a test case
for more than 600 lawsuits over claims that the company’s antidepressant drug
Paxil causes birth defects.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Antidepressant Drug, Birth Defect, Bloomberg News, Case Test, Cronin, David Logan, Drug Paxil, Food And Drug Administration, Glaxo, GlaxoSmithKline, Global Settlement, Heart Defects, Inquirer Business, Internal Company Documents, Margaret Cronin Fisk, Paxil, Roger Williams University, Settlement Negotiations, Test Case, Usa Pennsylvania |
By Ann Tracy on December 14, 2009
paid almost $1 billion to resolve lawsuits over Paxil since it introduced the
antidepressant in 1993, including about $390 million for suicides or attempted
suicides said to be linked to the drug, according to court records and people
familiar with the cases.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged 1 Billion, Antidepresant, Birth Defect, Dr. Tracy, Drug Awareness, Drug Manufacturers, Drugawareness, Glaring Omission, Glaxo, International Coalition, lawsuits, Murder Suicide, Panacea, Paxil, Psychiatrist, Red Flag, Regulatory Filings, School Of Medicine, Suicide Case, Tragic Murder, Tufts University School, Tufts University School Of Medicine |
By Ann Tracy on October 13, 2009
GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. must pay $2.5 million to settle a
claim that its Paxil antidepressant caused severe heart defects in a
3-year-old Bensalem boy, a Philadelphia common pleas jury ruled
today.
The verdict is the first in 600 cases alleging that
London-based Glaxo knew Paxil caused birth defects and hid those risks to
boost profits.
The drug, approved for U.S. use in 1992, generated about $942
million in sales last year, 2.1 percent of Glaxo’s total
revenue.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged 5 Million, 5m, Birth Defects, Glaxo, GlaxoSmithKline, Heart Defects, Inquirer Staff Writer, Live Births, Medication, Miriam, Paxil, Paxil Antidepressant, Paxil Pregnancy, Philadelphia Common Pleas, Philadelphia Firm, Philadelphia Region, Profits, Regulators, Sheller, Tue Oct |
By Ann Tracy on October 8, 2009
GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C., the world’s second-biggest drugmaker, begins a trial in Philadelphia next week in what may be a test case for more than 600 lawsuits over claims that the company’s antidepressant drug Paxil causes birth defects.
Patients and their parents say internal company documents show Glaxo failed to warn consumers about the risks of Paxil until forced to do so in 2005 by the Food and Drug Administration. In the trial set to start Monday, Michelle David blames the drug for causing life-threatening heart defects in her son, Lyam Kilker, now age 3.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Antidepressant Drug, Birth Defects, Bloomberg News, Cronin, David Logan, Drug Paxil, Food And Drug, Food And Drug Administration, Glaxo, GlaxoSmithKline, Global Settlement, Heart Defects, Inquirer Business, Internal Company Documents, Margaret Cronin Fisk, Paxil, Paxil Birth Defects, Roger Williams University, Settlement Negotiations, Test Case, Test Cases |
By Ann Tracy on September 15, 2009
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — An executive of GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world’s second-biggest drugmaker, talked about burying negative studies linking its antidepressant drug Paxil to birth defects, according to a company memo introduced at a trial.
“If neg, results can bury,” Glaxo executive Bonnie Rossello wrote in a 1997 memo on what the company would do if forced to conduct animal studies on the drug. The memo was read during opening statements in the trial of a lawsuit brought by the family of a child born with heart defects.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Animal Studies, Antidepressant Drug, Birth Defects, Church Congregation, Company Memo, Cronin, Dr. Tracy, Drug Paxil, Glaxo, GlaxoSmithKline, Glaxosmithkline Plc, Heart Defects, Heart Surgery, Jef, Margaret Cronin Fisk, Opening Statements, Paxil, Philadelphia Trial, Prozac, Rossello |
By Ann Tracy on September 13, 2009
Baby Indiana lost her life a year ago today due to the fact that her mother took Effexor during her pregnancy and her parents were not warned of the potentially fatal dangers involved. (Please go to one of the sites below to lend support to her family in their battle to raise awareness and also to see what happened to baby Indy.)
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged adverse reactions, antidepressants, Birth Defect, Broncial Tubes, Constriction, Donald Schell, Fda Guidelines, Glaxo, Increase Serotonin Levels, Intestines, Major Organs Of The Body, Murder Suicide, Organ Failure, Organs Of The Body, Paxil, Paxil Birth Defect, prescription drugs, Smooth Muscle Tissue, Suicide Case, Time Ann, War In The Middle East, Year Anniversary |
By Ann Tracy on August 4, 2009
About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 — 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged advertising, Anti-depressants, Antidepressant use, antidepressants, companies, doubles, Drug, Effexor, eli, Glaxo, gloxosmithkline, inhibitors. lamictal, kline, lexapro, Lilly, m.a.o., MAO, mood, Paxil, prescriptions, s.s.r.i., serotonin, Side Effects, smith, SSRI, U.S., Warnings, wellbutrin, Zoloft |
By Ann Tracy on August 4, 2009
A REMINDER: IT IS EASIER TO GET DOWN OFF A MOUNTAINTOP ONE GUARDED STEP AT A TIME THAN TO JUMP FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM.
No matter how few or how many side effects you have had on these antidepressants, withdrawal is a whole new world. The worst part of rapid withdrawal does not hit for several months AFTER you quit. So even if you think you are doing okay you quickly find that it becomes much worse.
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