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Mar-9-07 Washington, DC: Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca, are all named defendants in a new lawsuit filed by the state of Pennsylvania on February 26, 2007, to recover money paid through public health care programs to purchase Zyprexa , Risperdal, and Seroquel, and the costs of medical care for the people injured by these drugs. Pennsylvania... - Another lawsuit filed against Eli Lilly's Zyprexa
Feb-25-07 Chicago, IL: Eli Lilly faces yet another court appearance to defend its anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa after a lawsuit was filed late last month in Illinois. The plaintiff filed the lawsuit claiming he now suffers from diabetes and permanent bodily and mental harm after taking Zyprexa. He also argues that his illness has caused mental anguish, emotiona... - Kids Dying From Off-Label Use Of Antipsychotics
May-5-06 A recent USA Today sponsored review of the FDA database from 2000 to 2004 found at least 45 deaths in children under 18 with atypical antipsychotics listed as the "primary suspect," and 1,328 reports of other serious side effects, some life-threatening. Atypical antipsychotics are a relatively new class of drugs approved by the FDA for the treatment of a... - Eli Lilly Putting Zyprexa Patients At Risk of Suicide
Nov-25-07 Rockville, MD Now we know there is a corelleation between Zyprexa and suicide, people who may not have realized that their suicidal thoughts were related to Zyprexa, now understand that they may not have been in control of their thoughts and actions at all. Unfortunately, some patients, including youth, have committed suicide while taking this medicatio... - Zyprexa linked to Diabetes: Two Accounts
Aug-23-07 Boise, ID In 2000, James Jupin's psychiatrist prescribed Zyprexa to control his paranoid schizophrenia. About one year later, 37-year-old Jupin began to show signs of diabetes and hyperglycemia. "He was pretty active and had an average diet," says Gloria, his wife. "And there was no diabetes on either side of his family so this was a real shock." "J... - Lilly's Legal Battle over Zyprexa Documents Continues
Jan-8-07 On January 3, 2007, a hearing was held before Judge Jack Weinstein, in a US District Court in New York, on a motion by Eli Lilly to extend an injunction to conceal company documents that show Lilly hid the lethal side effects of Zyprexa for a decade and engaged in an illegal off-label marketing scheme to promote the drug for unapproved uses. Zyprexa... - FDA Warns About Serious Olanzapine Skin Reactions
Washington, DC: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that the antipsychotic medicine Olanzapine (Zyprexa) can cause a rare but serious skin reaction that can progress to affect other parts of the body. Consequently, the FDA is adding a new warning to the drug labels for all olanzapine-containing products that describes this severe condi... - Eli Lilly Settles Zyprexa Lawsuit in Connecticut
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay the state $25.1 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the drug company marketed its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses and did not adequately reveal the drug's side effects for more than 10 years. Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sued Eli Lilly last year, alleging that Lilly's... - Lilly Settles Zyprexa Lawsuits with 8 of 12 Remaining States
Eight of 12 states that sued Eli Lily & Co over alleged off-label promotion of its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa have reached a settlement with the pharmaceutical company. While the terms of the settlements are confidential, West Virginia's settlement is reportedly worth $2.5 million. Thirty-three other states have already settled their cons... - Eli Lilly to pay $15 million settlement in Zyprexa lawsuit.
Anchorage, AK: (Mar-26-08) The State of Alaska brought a lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Co., an innovation-driven corporation, over the use of its drug Zyprexa , or olanzapine, by the State's Medicaid program. Zyprexa, which is often prescribed in the US and in more than 80 other countries, is used for the short and long term treatment of schizophrenia, a... - Dr. David S. Egilman Zyprexa Information Leak Settlement
New York, NY: (Sep-07-07) Eli Lilly brought a lawsuit against Dr. David S. Egilman, alleging that the doctor leaked confidential materials about Lilly's antipsychotic drug Zyprexa . The documents were among evidence provided by Lilly as part of a lawsuit filed by patients who contended that side effects from Zyprexa caused excessive weight gain and diabe... - Zyprexa: "I couldn't care less if I lived or died"
Oct-5-07 Seattle, WA Patients who are diagnosed with depression may feel a sense of shame about their diagnosis. That feeling may be compounded if they begin to feel suicidal, which can happen to people who take Zyprexa . However, many people do not realize that they are not [ alone ], that other people taking Zyprexa have felt suicidal. The problem is with the dr... - Psychotropic Drug Makers Bankroll Prescribing Shrinks Part II
Sep-2-07 Washington, DC: Influence peddling in the field of psychiatry is out of control. An analysis of Minnesota disclosure records by the Pioneer Press and the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen shows that, between 2002 and 2006, 187 Minnesota doctors received payments from drug companies worth a grand total of $7.38 million. No other field of medicine ev... - Zyprexa: Courts Can Help
Jul-5-07 Brooklyn, NY Somewhere on YouTube is a video clip featuring Shahram Ahari, a former account executive at Eli Lilly, claiming that he was told to play down the adverse side effects of Zyprexa , which he used to sell on behalf of the company. A spokesperson from Eli Lilly & Co. counters that Ahari is a paid witness in a case against a New Hampshire... - Zyprexa: Another Link to Diabetes
Sep-19-06 Truro, NS In September 2005, Mary Allen was hospitalized and treated for manic depression. She was given Zyprexa . "I was never told about any side effects," she says. "My doctor nor I knew at the time of any correlation between Zyprexa and diabetes. "At the hospital, I was a subject of a clinical study to determine whether Zyprexa was more effecti... - Incidence of Zyprexa Diabetes in Youth Rising in Tennessee
Jan-2-14 Nashville, TN Diabetes is a disease that most often affects adults later in life, due partly to weight gain, lack of exercise and poor diet habits exacerbated over time. Juvenile diabetes, on the other hand, is rare, and just as well given the challenges associated with diabetes. However, a growing concern surrounding side effects of a popular class of ant... - Zyprexa: The Manipulation, and the Money
Nov-16-07 Indianapolis, IN As concern escalates over atypical antipsychotic drug Zyprexa , its complex assortment of serious side effects and the drug's association with patients who shouldn't be on it in the first place, a small window of enlightenment appears in the unlikeliest of places--You Tube. Amongst the amateur guitar pickers doing covers of Bruce Spr... - Damning FDA Letter Bolsters case against Zyprexa Maker
Jul-17-07 Washington, DC A letter sent by the Food and Drug Administration to Eli Lilly in March, 2007 is providing support for claimants suing the company over the under-disclosed side-effects of its antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa , and may even expand the category of potential plaintiffs to include those who took the drug after March 2004, the month the company is... - Big Pharma Bankrupting US Health Care System
Aug-29-06 ig Pharma is bankrupting the nation's health care system by convincing prescribing doctors to over-medicate patients with expensive psychiatric drugs and then send the bills to government programs like Medicaid and Medicare. The peddling of the new generation of psychiatric drugs that include the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants (S... - Antipsychotic Drugs - Side Effects of Antipsychotics, Antipsychotic Medications
A warning has been issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning antipsychotic drugs and their use in pregnancy. According to the FDA, use of antipsychotics in pregnancy can result in harm to the fetus. Antipsychotic medications , which are used to treat the symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, include medications s...