Drug Firms Blasted for Hiding Antidepressant Data
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Description: In Capitol Hill hearings, lawmakers criticize drug manufacturers for failing to fully disclose data on the use of antidepressants by children, creating a misleading impression of the drugs&#39; safety and effectiveness.
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Dec. 9, 2004 - New documents uncovered by ABC News suggest GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of the popular antidepressant Paxil, failed to disclose important information about the possibility of an increased risk
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The Food and Drug Administration will examine clinical trial data for thousands of depressed adults to see if they, like children, suffered increased suicidal thoughts and behaviors while taking antidepressants.
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The chairman of a House committee angrily accused the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday of withholding documents on the effects of antidepressants on children.
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The pharmaceutical industry made a commitment Thursday to publish more data about clinical drug trials, amid growing questions about the safety of many leading companies' medicines.
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According to the British Medical Journal, Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, suppressed evidence linking their antidepressant to behavioral disturbances.
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The drug industry, fighting off criticism for hiding data from negative studies, unveiled on Tuesday a database for firms to voluntarily provide summarized results of most clinical trials of medicines sold in the United States.
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Agency wants to learn if drugs can lead to suicide in young people; most major drugmakers impacted. NEW YORK  - The Food and Drug Administration is expected to call for changes to labels for antidepressants to reflect a new agency analysis ...
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Drug companies which fail to disclose the results of clinical trials are harming the treatment of cancer patients, doctors say.
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Drug manufacturers acknowledged Thursday that they face a crisis of credibility they hope to remedy by releasing information about their clinical trials.
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A medical journal has apologised to a drugs firm after reporting confidential papers on anti-depressant drug Prozac went missing during a murder case.
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Blog: 17,000 of the pharmaceutical company's employees may have had their personal data exposed on a Web site.
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LONDON A British medical journal says it has confidential drug company documents that suggest the makers of the anti-depressant drug Prozac knew in the 1980&#39;s that the drug had troubling side-effects.
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The British Medical Journal said on  Friday it has sent documents to U.S. health regulators that it  said appear to suggest a link between the antidepressant drug  Prozac and suicidal behavior.
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Congress has been investigating the FDA&#39;s decisions in both the Vioxx and antidepressant cases. The probes have focused on agency reviewers who warned about potential problems but claimed their research was ignored or suppressed by other officials.
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A US government medical reviewer who raised concerns about antidepressant use by children said on Thursday he was pressured to hide information and submit an altered document to congressional investigators.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) plans to update antidepressant labels to reflect studies that suggest a link between the drugs and suicide in youth, according to documents released on Friday.