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Lawyers new Cash cow Seroquel
Lawyers new Cash cow Seroquel
Miracle Pill Seroquel pulls in massive 36 billion a year to Astra Zeneca.
25 million people has received the medication that relieves mental illness.
But behind the economic success of growing scandals: Dark side effects, illegal marketing and suicide during the studies.
It also makes patients obese and Astra Zeneca have known this since the introduction in 1997. On average the patients go up five kilograms a year, and the risk of diabetes increases. Effects are revealed in "Study 15", which immediately classified by Astra Zeneca. Neither the doctors nor the patients would be told the truth.
Now it is clear what happened. Law firm Blizzard, McCarthy & Naber succeeded recently in a trial in Orlando has Astra Zeneca to publish documents.
New York Times could publish AstraZeneca's internal e-mail from 1997. Richard Lawrence, one of the governors, praised the employees Lisa Arventis and wrote:
"Lisa has done a fantastic job with the cover-up!"
More than 15,000 Americans now want to have damages of Astra Zeneca. After medication with Seroquel, the victims of both obesity and diabetes, perhaps even heart disease.
Even the U.S. government feels cheated by the Swedish-British pharmaceutical giant. The allegations about illegal marketing.
About Astra Zeneca case, huge amounts, probably in the billions. Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly recently sentenced to fines totaling $ 1.4 billion for the marketing of Zyprexa, which belongs to the same category as Seroquel.
- The company may pay a fine three times more than what they have earned through marketing. A couple of one hundred million U.S. dollars is not uncommon.
Seroquel is currently approved for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. So far, 25 million patients worldwide received the medication. Astra Zeneca can not provide a precise figure but estimated that "a couple of thousand Swedes may Seroquel.
Many patients have been helped by medication, may receive life back. But the feeling is accused Astra Zeneca to have convinced a doctor to print the medicine for a range of disorders, from insomnia to anxiety and depression. The authorities have so far not been able to establish that the medicine is effective against these diseases. Astra Zeneca is struggling to Seroquel should meet the requirements.
The U.S. is increasing the target group for medication with 20 million people, if medicine is approved for new indications. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, hesitating before approval. The list of side effects is long.
- Seroquel is not a toothless medicine. It is part of a group of drugs with high efficacy but can also cause significant side effects says known doctors.
As recently as two weeks since the breeze was a scandal surrounding Seroquel. Some news agencies revealed experiment with medicine in 2005 and 2006. To find out if Seroquel prevent relapse in schizophrenia patients recruited from 26 centers in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria and India. Half of the patients received Seroquel, half left without treatment. As a result, 36 patients recovered patients; one of them took his life. The patient had received placebo and were without medication.
Astra Zeneca denies that suicide is possible to connect to the study, emphasizing that it followed all the rules of the test countries.
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