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Seroquel Diabetes Side Effects
Over 15,000 people have filed a lawsuit as a result of AstraZeneca's failure to warn about Seroquel side effects like diabetes, pancreatitis and death.
All federal Seroquel lawsuits have been consolidated in a Multidistrict Litigation centralized in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The first trials are expected to begin in 2009.
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AstraZeneca Successful in First Diabetes Seroquel Lawsuit
A New Jersey jury has handed drug maker AstraZeneca a defense verdict in the first trial over claims that side effects of Seroquel, a popular atypical antipsychotic, caused users to develop diabetes.
Nursing Home Antipsychotic Misuse Cited in 2,500 Massachusetts Cases
About 2,500 Massachusetts nursing home residents are being given powerful and sometimes dangerous antipsychotic medications like Seroquel and Risperdal that they do not need, according to federal investigators.
Misleading Seroquel Weight Gain Statements Earn Ethics Violation in UK
British regulators say that some of AstraZeneca’s claims about the potential weight gain side effects of Seroquel constituted a breach of ethics under that country’s pharmaceutical codes of conduct.
Avandia, Seroquel Top List of Most Common Adverse Event Reports
According to a new analysis of serious, disabling and fatal adverse events reported to FDA during the third quarter of 2009, the controversial diabetes drug Avandia was associated with the most reports, followed by the antipsychotic drug Seroquel.
Seroquel Diabetes Lawsuit Trial Under Way in New Jersey
Jury selection in the first Seroquel trial began Thursday, with opening statements set to begin Monday in a lawsuit filed by a Vietnam vet who says he developed diabetes after taking the blockbuster antipsychotic to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Seroquel Litigation May Cost AstraZeneca $1.2B in Legal Costs: Report
Litigation over Seroquel could cost AstraZeneca up to $1.2 billion in legal costs between thousands of plaintiffs’ failure-to-warn Seroquel lawsuits and government charges that the popular anti-psychotic drug was marketed illegally.
Zyprexa Side Effects for Children Lead to Revised FDA Warnings
The FDA has required the drug maker Eli Lilly to update the warning label for their popular antipsychotic Zyprexa about potential weight-gain side effects among children.
Seroquel Weight-Gain Side Effects Suppressed by AstraZeneca
A former high-ranking AstraZeneca employee has admitted that the pharmaceutical company knew about the potential weight-gain side effects of Seroquel, but pressured medical staff to sign off on claims that the antipsychotic drug was weight neutral.
DOJ Joins Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Johnson & Johnson Over Kickbacks for Nursing Home Prescriptions
Federal prosecutors have intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, accusing the company of paying kickbacks to Omnicare, a nursing home pharmacy supplier, to push its antipsychotic drug Risperdal onto elderly patients.
Two Seroquel Lawsuits in Delaware Dismissed, First New Jersey Trial Nears
A Delaware state court judge has dismissed two Seroquel lawsuits after excluding the plaintiffs’ expert witness testimony, leaving the plaintiffs with no way to prove that their use of Seroquel caused diabetes. However, the ruling is specific to these two cases and will not have a direct impact on thousands of other similar lawsuits [...]
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