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February 06, 2014

Study of Drug for Blood Clots Caused a Stir, Records Show

Quoted from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/business/study-of-blood-clot-drug-pradaxa-unnerved-its-maker-documents-suggest.html

Study of Drug for Blood Clots Caused a Stir, Records Show

By KATIE THOMAS

FEB. 5, 2014

The makers of the blood-thinning drug Pradaxa were so worried that an internal research paper would damage drug sales that some employees not only pressured the author to revise it, but suggested it should be quashed altogether, according to newly unsealed legal documents.

The documents were made public last week by a federal judge in Illinois who is overseeing thousands of lawsuits filed by patients and their families, who say that Pradaxa’s manufacturer, the German company Boehringer Ingelheim, failed to properly warn them about the risks of taking the drug.

Since its approval in 2010, the drug, which can cause fatal bleeding, has brought in more than $2 billion in sales in the United States, according to the research firm IMS Health.

It has been prescribed to 850,000 patients, but has also been linked to more than 1,000 deaths.

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Tags: Boehringer Ingelheim, drug injury, fatal bleeding, Pradaxa, side effects, study results

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