Paxil News
Japan sees an increase in suicide among Paxil users
A Japanese health official says that cases involving suicide or suicidal behavior among patients taking Paxil were 13 times higher last year than in the previous year. The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare says that approximately 920,000 people in Japan suffered from depression during 2005.
Paxil withdrawal symptoms torment users
He was a recent college graduate in 2000 when he decided that anxiety was holding him down. So Robert Nishiyama went to his physician and was prescribed Paxil, an antidepressant.
Widow files Paxil suicide lawsuit in New York
The widow of a New York man who committed suicide three days after being prescribed the antidepressant Paxil has filed a lawsuit against its manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, and the doctors who gave him the prescription. Frances Cabanillas says that the potent cocktail of drugs that her husband, Fidel Zapata, was prescribed caused him to jump from the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York in February 2005. Suicide is one of the known side effects of Paxil.
BBC report says GSK knew of Paxil suicide link
GlaxoSmithKline has been accused by a BBC news program of trying to hide the link between its antidepressant drug Paxil and suicide. A special report by the British network’s Panorama alleges that the company hid the results of a study which showed that Paxil caused an increased risk of suicide among minors, and that it hired ghostwriters in order to conceal this Paxil side effect.
Paxil lawsuit filed in South Carolina
GlaxoSmithKline is facing another lawsuit over Paxil, its popular antidepressant drug. A South Carolina couple contends that Paxil caused their daughter to suffer birth defects. The attorney for Shannon and Kimberly Dismuke says this is the third such lawsuit nationwide and the first in South Carolina.