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Friday, 31 December 2004, 8:43 a.m.

 

Journal hands over Prozac papers

 

Confidential papers on anti-depressant

 

drug Prozac that went missing during a murder case

 

have been handed to the US drug regulator by a

UK medical journal.

 

The documents, belonging to Eli Lilly,

the makers of Prozac, included details of

clinical trials of the drug,

the British Medical Journal said.

 

The documents reportedly went missing after

the relatives of the victims of Joseph Wesbecker

started legal action.

 

Mr Wesbecker, who was on Prozac,

shot eight people dead in 1989 in the US.

 

Another 12 people were injured during

the shooting spree at a printing plant

in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

Data

 

The 47-year-old then shot himself.

 

In 1994, the relatives brought a civil case against Eli Lilly.

 

The company subsequently won the case but was later forced to admit that

it had made a secret settlement with the plaintiffs during the trial, which

meant that the verdict was invalid, the BMJ reported.

 

Dr Richard Kalpit, the clinical reviewer at the US Food and Drug

Administration, the US drugs regulator, who approved the drug, told the BMJ

he was not given the data included in the documents.

 

" These data are very important. If this report was done by Lilly or for

Lilly, it was their responsibility to report it to us and to publish it. "

 

Recent research has suggested children who use Prozac are at greater risk

of suicide.

 

And earlier this month the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory

Authority said analysis of both published and unpublished data by experts on

the Committee on Safety of Medicines showed " a modest increase in the risk

of suicide from SSRIs [such as Prozac and Seroxat] compared to placebos

[dummy pills] " in adults.

 

The FDA is now reviewing the papers, which were given to

the BMJ by an anonymous source.

 

Confidential

 

BMJ deputy editor Dr Tony Delamothe said the journal

had handed the confidential drug company documents

to the FDA as it believed healthcare decisions need

to be made using all the information available.

 

" The BMJ is committed to ensuring that results good, bad, or indifferent

are reported. "

 

A spokesman for Eli Lilly said it would not be appropriate to comment on

the content of the papers as officials from the company have not seen them.

 

But he added: " Lilly is committed to the public disclosure of all clinical

trial data to ensure that healthcare professionals and families have the

information they need to make informed treatment decisions about Lilly

medicines.

 

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