[news] Drug company rebuked

[Resist!ca]

A pharmaceutical company was yesterday found to have undermined an urgent safety restriction on its antidepressant drug and misquoted official guidance on the treatment of depression so as to favour its product. Wyeth has been forced to withdraw an information pack about the drug Effexor, which is now only allowed to be prescribed by specialists in mental health since it has been associated with more deaths and other side effects than others in its class.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/184012/470