Furious Seasons

September 15, 2009

Court Rules Glaxo Must Reveal Paxil Birth Defects Emails

This from Bloomberg today in the first court case against GlaxoSmithKline over allegations that the company's anti-depressant Paxil caused fatal heart defects in a newborn child whose mother had taken the drug while pregnant:

"U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner in Boston today refused to block William Seale’s family from reviewing e-mails and other communications between Glaxo and Boston University researchers over Paxil’s birth-defect risks. The 1-year-old Seale, whose pregnant mother took the antidepressant, died in 2004 after three surgeries to address heart defects, according to court filings.
"Seale’s family contends officials at London-based Glaxo, which funded the birth-defect research, sought to influence the study’s results to help protect the company from lawsuits, Gertner said in her ruling."

It'll be interesting to see what these emails reveal once they are presented in open court.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at September 15, 2009 10:05 AM

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Yes, these emails and all the studies, etc. need to be revealed. No more 'hiding' of the facts as was experienced in the Wesbecker [Prozac] civil case back in 1995 where even the presiding judge took it to the KY Supreme Court. Think of how many lives were have been saved if all had been revealed during this most important civil trial.

Perhaps the live of these two pro-abortionists would have been saved too, if the truth had come out before this late date.

Here is the story has it appears on www.SSRIstories.com

http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=3626

Paragraph two reads: "The man charged with murdering two people in Owosso was battling depression and was experiencing problems with his medication."

Paragraph seven reads: "Drake is now back in jail after being taken to the hospital over the weekend after a suicide attempt in his cell."

http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/59342982.html

Posted: 12:48 PM Sep 15, 2009
Murder Suspect's Family Speaks

The family of Harlan Drake, the man charged with murdering two people in Owosso, releases a statement about Friday's killings.

Posted by: Rosie at September 15, 2009 10:19 AM