50,000 uk kids took seroxat - but how many suicides before 2003?

This information is extracted with URL from a site run by Parker Waichman Alonso LLP which is a major firm of plaintifs lawyers active in the fields of big tobacco & pharma litigation.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uksurvivors/message/61033


So according to them 50,000 UK children took Seroxat prior to 2003 ............it would be interesting to learn from reliable sources just how many completed suicides there were & how many were exclusively blaned only on Seroxat


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Roughly 50,000 British children took the drug before it was banned in 2003 for use by patients under the age of 18. The documentary claims that GSK knew of the risks in the late 1990s.





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BBC: Glaxo Hid Safety Concerns Related to Seroxat (Paxil)

Jan 31, 2007
NewsInferno.com According to journalists at the BBC, GlaxoSmithKline intentionally distorted and covered up damaging information about their antidepressant Seroxat and its link to an increased risk of suicide in children. Researchers for the BBC documentary series Panorama obtained three critical documents suggesting that the company had conducted trials proving the drug was unsafe, but failed to accurately disclose that information. (Seroxat is a brand name for paroxetine, a selective serotonin ...

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