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February 26, 2007 at 06:45:27

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Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Off-Label Sale of Zyprexa

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By Evelyn Pringle (about the author)     Page 4 of 4 page(s)

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While Mr Gottstein and Dr Egilman may have set themselves up for big trouble by releasing the Zyprexa documents to the press; in light of the harm to the public from off-label prescribing, evidenced well by the Riley case, drastic measures were called for and they obviously believed the risks were worth taking.

According to Dr Lawrence Diller, a behavioral-developmental pediatrician, and author of "The Last Normal Child," and A Prescription for Disaster: "The extensive prescription of these medications for children, without adequate testing for safety and effectiveness in children constitutes a hidden time bomb that could explode with still more casualties."

"Catastrophic side effects," he says, "may be rare, but they become predictable when we treat so many children with so many drugs."

As for Lilly, the company has billions of reasons to keep the documents buried because they prove beyond any doubt that the company knew about the health problems caused by Zyprexa and intentionally kept the information hidden while it influenced doctors to write off-label prescriptions for million of consumers in the name of the almighty dollar.


Evelyn Pringle
evelyn-pringle@sbcglobal.net

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ZYPREXA WILL SHORTEN MY LIFE by Danny Haszard on Monday, Feb 26, 2007 at 7:14:03 AM

 
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