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Glaxo Distorted Drug Test Data - '07
Topic Started: Aug 24 2007, 07:26 PM (120 Views)
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Glaxo distorted Paxil drug test data: BBC
Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:52 PM GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc was accused on Monday of distorting clinical trial results of its antidepressant Seroxat, or Paxil, and covering up a link with suicide in teenagers.

The BBC plans to air a Panorama program later saying the drug company attempted to show that Seroxat worked for depressed children despite failed clinical trials and that Glaxo-employed ghostwriters influenced "independent" academics.

A summary of the program was published on the BBC Web site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/6291773.stm).

"We utterly reject the allegations that are being made in their program," a Glaxo spokeswoman said.

She denied the company had improperly withheld any trial information and said results from pediatric studies were documented and submitted to regulators in accordance with requirements, as well as being presented publicly and published.

Regulators in 2003 recommended against using Seroxat in people under 18 due to an increase in the rate of self-harm and potentially suicidal behaviors in this age group when the drug was prescribed.

But Glaxo said the increase in suicidal thinking was only revealed when results of separate clinical studies were pooled at the end of its research program, at which point the company brought the findings to the attention of regulatory authorities.


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I had to go through 5 links to find this story as it has been deleted off the first ones listed on Dogpile.
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