Court Rules Glaxo Must Reveal Paxil Birth Defects Emails
This from Bloomberg today in the first court case against GlaxoSmithKline over allegations that the company’s anti-depressant Paxil caused fatal heart defects in a newborn child whose mother had taken the drug while pregnant:
“U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner in Boston today refused to block William Seale’s family from reviewing e-mails and other communications between Glaxo and Boston University researchers over Paxil’s birth-defect risks. The 1-year-old Seale, whose pregnant mother took the antidepressant, died in 2004 after three surgeries to address heart defects, according to court filings.
“Seale’s family contends officials at London-based Glaxo, which funded the birth-defect research, sought to influence the study’s results to help protect the company from lawsuits, Gertner said in her ruling.”
It’ll be interesting to see what these emails reveal once they are presented in open court.
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