Health Supreme Update: Prozac Approval Flawed: Suicide Link Was Known Before FDA

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28 Jan 2005 18:22:36 -0000

 

Health Supreme Update: Prozac Approval Flawed: Suicide Link

Was Known Before FDA OK

 

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Health Supreme Update: Prozac Approval Flawed: Suicide Link Was Known

Before FDA OK

 

January 28, 2005

 

 

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The British Medical Journal has apologized to Eli Lilly for

implying in a recent article that scientific documents about

Prozac's side effects had " gone missing " during a legal case

some years ago, as reported by BBC today. But here is the

important data that almost get drowned out by the noise over a

largely irrelevant point: Eli Lilly, as the maker of Prozac,

has been aware of serious side effects even before obtaining

the FDA's approval for the drug. " The documents reveal that as

early as 1984—years before the FDA approved the

drug—Lilly knew or should have known that Prozac

frequently induced severe adverse side effects, including

" activation " and suicidality " ,...

 

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Sepp

 

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