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Sort by relevance 140 pages found matching zyprexa- Eli Lilly Settles Zyprexa Investigations for $62 Million
Eli Lilly has settled Zyprexa lawsuits with 32 states and Washington DC, for a reported $62 million, putting an end to investigations into the company's marketing practices of the antipsychotic medication. According to the attorney general for Indiana, Lilly allegedly marketed the drug for pediatric use, and for use in dementia patients at high dos... - Psychopharmacology In Court
Jul-29-08 A previously outgoing, athletic and scholastically proficient 12 year-old begins to show increasing academic problems. Over the course of 18 months, he is treated by HMO pediatricians and child psychiatrists for ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) to which the diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Bipolar Disorder are progressively added on. He i... - 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... - Zyprexa on Trial in Alaska: Lilly Accused of Putting Profit Before Patients
Mar-9-08 Anchorage, AK Spectators in a courtroom in Anchorage are getting an earful about how Zyprexa maker Eli Lilly waited, according to a witness, almost nine years to add warnings to Zyprexa with regard to a risk for diabetes, elevated blood sugar levels and weight gain. Instead, Lilly is alleged to have hid data that cast Zyprexa in a bad light, and ins... - Daniel Troy - Bush Administration's Preemption Gang - Part II
Feb-26-08 Washington, DC: In the fall of 2004, Daniel Troy left the FDA armed with the preemption policy he put in place. Now a partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Mr Troy works for a firm that he told Lily Henning of the Legal Times on September 20, 2005, "represents pretty much almost every company" in the brand-name drug industry. In fact, Sidley Austin i... - Long-Acting Zyprexa Gets Limited Ok by FDA
Feb-8-08 Washington, DC: The FDA decided Wednesday that the injectable form of Zyprexa , a drug manufactured by Eli Lilly & Co. was safe to use for some patients with Schizophrenia. This decision was made by the panel, which is comprised of outside medical experts, states that there are restrictions that come along with this approval by the FDA regarding the use... - Trasylol Fiasco - FDA Fails To Protect Americans Again - Part I
Feb-1-08 Washington, DC: On November 5, 2007, the FDA announced that Bayer Pharmaceuticals had suspended the marketing of Trasylol after preliminary results of a Canadian study indicated that patients may also have a greater risk of death than patients taking either of two other drugs. The Canadian study, Blood Antifibrinolytics Randomized Trial (BART), led... - Zyprexa: Eli Lilly could be Tagged with $1 Billion Dollar Fine
Jan-31-08 Philadelphia, PA: A four-year investigation into the marketing practices of Zyprexa may result in manufacturer Eli Lilly paying $1 billion in fines to federal and state governments. At issue are unscrupulous marketing initiatives Eli Lilly publicly denies but which appear in company documents, targeting doctors with regard to the use of Zyprexa off... - FDA Wakes Up: Now Requires Drug Makers to Test for Suicide
Jan-24-08 Washington, DC: Although there is no direct reference to Chantix, the smoking cessation drug that has been the center of much recent concern regarding suicidal thoughts, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just announced a policy that requires drug manufacturers to study the potential for suicidal tendencies during clinical trials. In the pa... - Zyprexa Suicide: Children at Risk
Jan-15-08 Fayetteville, TN: When Sarah D. was only a child she was put on Zyprexa to help control the mood swings associated with her bipolar disorder. Beth (Sarah's mother) says that they tried several drugs, but from around age eight to age fourteen, Sarah took Zyprexa. According to both Beth and Sarah, it was only a matter of months after her prescription began... - Zyprexa: Suicide can be a Side Effect of Drugs
Jan-10-08 Washington, DC: The news is getting harder and harder to ignore. More drugs are being linked to an increased risk of violence and suicide. While some people would argue that, at least in the case of Zyprexa, it is the underlying condition of the patient that increases the risk of suicide, there are more drugs being linked to this risk, making it more dif... - Zyprexa Suicide: Husband Hung Himself... continued
Dec-11-07 Rockford, IL Sarah Thompson's (not her real name) husband committed suicide almost six years ago after taking Zyprexa for less than three months. Even before David committed suicide, he experienced some of the stigma that comes with taking Zyprexa and attempting suicide . Thompson has also had her own problems, dealing with the reactions of people aro... - Zyprexa Suicide: Husband Hung Himself
Dec-10-07 Rockford, IL: Sarah Thompson's (not her real name) husband, David, committed suicide on March 7, 2002, after taking Zyprexa for only three months. Thompson says she has no doubt that Zyprexa changed her husband and altered his thinking. The coroner may agree with Thompson—on David's death certificate, next to "How injury occurred," he wrote, "P... - Zyprexa Suicide Victims' Families Angry
Dec-6-07 Louisville, KY The family members of people who committed suicide after taking Zyprexa are understandably upset that they were not made aware of the risks associated with taking the drug. Patients as young as nine years old have reported having suicidal thoughts after taking Zyprexa and some adults have committed suicide. Now, as more reports of p... - Zyprexa Suicide: "Several Years of Pure Hell"
Nov-29-07 Franklinton, LA Many patients who are given prescription medications want to be good patients, so they dutifully follow their doctor's advice and take their meds. Unfortunately, in some cases, such as Zyprexa , the medication can make the patient a lot worse. Not realizing that the problem is the medication, the doctor increases the dosage, compounding... - 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... - Swedish Professor Slams Zyprexa, Pulls no Punches
Nov-22-07 Hagersten, Sweden: Zyprexa is the sixth largest seller in Sweden, in all categories, and Rolf Adolfsson isn't happy about that. Unhappy, because the endocrine effects of Zyprexa are extremely dangerous, so says the noted Swedish professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Adolfsson, who has been investigating the harmful effects of drugs for the past seven years,... - Zyprexa Side Effects are Deadly
Nov-21-07 St. Petersburg, FL There appears to be no group that is safe from the deadly side effects of Zyprexa . Seniors with dementia who are given the drug are at an increased risk of death, adults and children have a risk of suicidal tendencies and those who survive that may suffer from serious weight gain and diabetes. With all these potentially dangerous sid... - 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... - Zyprexa: Highest Rate of Suicides in its Class
Nov-15-07 Houston, TX A drug prescribed to combat agitation, has the potential to cause agitation: such is the disconnect often found in the drug world and in this case Zyprexa , which has been linked to several serious side effects including diabetes and stroke, and has generated much lawsuit activity. Most damning of all, is the reality that a drug which is...