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Mass-Tort Designation Sought for Seroquel Lawsuits
Law.com | July 13, 2006

Blockbuster drugs manufactured by three multinational pharmaceutical companies are generating headaches in a Middlesec County, New Jersey, courtroom.

Facing a caseload of 235 claims against anti-psychotic drugs Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa that could run into millions of dollars, Superior Court Judge Bryan Garruto has asked the state Supreme Court to roll up the litigation into a single mass tort.

Seroquel Tied to Deaths
The New York Times | April 12, 2005

Older patients with dementia who are given antipsychotic medicines are far more likely to die prematurely than those given dummy pills, federal drug regulators said Monday. The warning adds to growing worries about the safety of the widely prescribed drugs.

The Food and Drug Administration said that it would now require manufacturers of the medicines to place black-box warnings—the agency's most severe—on the labels of all the drugs. In 2003, the agency required manufacturers to add a warning about an increased risk of diabetes from antipsychotic medications.

Zyprexa and Sympyax from Eli Lilly, Risperda from Johnson & Johnson, Seroquel from AstroZeneca, Abilify from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Clozaril from Novartis and Geodon from Pfizer are all affected by the warning.

3 Schizophrenia Drugs May Raise Diabetes Risk, Study Says
The New York Times | August 25, 2003

Three drugs commonly prescribed for schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses increased patients' risk of developing diabetes when compared with older antipsychotic medications, researchers said yesterday, presenting the results from a long-awaited study of patients treated at veterans hospitals and clinics across the country.

The drugs—Zyprexa, made by Eli Lilly, Risperdal, made by Jannsen Pharmaceutica, and Seroquel, made by AstraZeneca—were associated with higher rates of diabetes than older generation drugs for schizophrenia like Haldol, the study found. But the increased risk was statistically significant only for Zyprexa and Risperdal, the researchers said, possibly because of the smaller number of subjects who took Seroquel.

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