"Buried Data," a "Smoke-and-Mirrors Job" and a "Positive Spin" o...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 02/27/2009 - 15:54

Documents produced on discovery and recently unsealed during litigation suggested how AstraZeneca handled clinical research data in the marketing of its atypical anti-psychotic drug Seroquel (quetiapine).

As reported by Bloomberg ,

AstraZeneca Plc 'buried' unfavorable studies on its antipsychotic drug Seroquel, according to an internal e-mail unsealed as part of litigation over the medicine.

The drugmaker failed to publicize results of at least three clinical trials of Seroquel and engaged in 'cherry picking' of...


 

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