December 16, 2006
NEWS: Eli Lilly Downplayed Zyprexa's Diabetes Risks
From the lede of a New York Times article on Zyprexa:
"The drug maker Eli Lilly has engaged in a decade-long effort to play down the health risks of Zyprexa, its best-selling medication for schizophrenia, according to hundreds of internal Lilly documents and e-mail messages among top company managers."
Read the rest at the link above. This is major news. More later.
Posted by Philip Dawdy at December 16, 2006 06:02 PM
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I am so glad I never used Zyprexa. The doctor looked at me, and I was already 50 lbs overweight from my other meds, and put me on Geodon beause my bipolar often goes to borderline schilzoprhenia, if that makes sense. (Schizo-affective?)
Thank heaven I had a good p-doc.
