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February 22, 2010

AstraZeneca Hid Seroquel’s Risk, Lawyer Tells Jurors

Quoted from http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-22/astrazeneca-hid-seroquel-s-risk-lawyer-tells-jurors-update1-.html

AstraZeneca Hid Seroquel’s Risk, Lawyer Tells Jurors

February 22, 2010


By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- AstraZeneca Plc hid the diabetes risks of the antipsychotic drug Seroquel, a lawyer for a former user suing the company told a New Jersey jury in the first case to go to trial over the medicine.

Ted Baker, a Vietnam War veteran, took the drug to deal with lingering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and wasn’t properly warned about its risks, his lawyer Jerry Kristal said today in state court in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The case is among about 26,000 over similar claims.

AstraZeneca buried warnings about Seroquel’s links to diabetes under a list of other possible side effects in the drug’s label, Kristal said in opening statements in the trial, which is scheduled to last at least three weeks.

“There were about 175 things listed before you got down to diabetes,” including hiccups, chills and hemorrhoids, he said.

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Tags: drug-injury, law, lawsuit-trial, Seroquel

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