The judge in last year's law suit over Eli Lilly's drug Zyprexa ordered the documents unsealed in what he termed a class-action law suit. According to the New York Times, Judge Jack B. Weinstein weighed Lilly's rights to privacy against the public's right to know how the drug was marketed and approved. A New York Times reporter was reprimanded last year after writing about company decisions based on documents that eventually were circulated widely on the internet. Weinstein's actions followed those of a judge in Alaska in July. According to The Carlat Psychiatry Blog, as of July, Lilly continued to engage in educational practices aimed at minimizing the well-known and dangerous side effects of its block-buster drug.
Zyprexa has generated a lot of bad press for Eli Lilly and they still have unresolved Zyprexa settlement claims.
Posted by Daniel Haszard | September 9, 2008 11:46 AMEli Lilly is 'reaping the whirlwind' for aggressive marketing of Zyprexa that has caused suffering and deaths.
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Daniel Haszard Zyprexa patient who got diabetes from it.