seroquel lawsuit

[Jason]

You need to seriously get your blood work DONE! Go to a medical Dr. ASAP. Iv'e takin seroquel now for about 3 years, and my triglicrides are off the charts!I now come to find out that I have straight up diabeties from this shit. I wasn't feeling right either, I put on about 60 pounds, lathargic the works! You need to see a medical physician like NOW! This is very serious, and thanks for reading, because I just may have saved your LIFE!!! Now I have straight up diabeties from the shit! You need to get looked at by a medical physician NOW! This is very serious... Thanks for reading, I may have saved you

Strawberry wrote:

This is the first I've heard of this. I have taken Seroquel for years for anxiety and insomnia.It is especially effective for insomnia. I usually take 100 mgs. nightly, but at times have increased to 200mgs. up to 400mgs. depending on how severe my symptoms get. I am wondering, if I could ask all of you what dosage you have taken to get ill. I have never had my blood sugar tested. Quite frankly, the only doctor I have been to in years is my Shrink, who prescribes it. I avoid them at all costs. However,I really do not feel physically well, and haven't for some time.Not a hypocondriac.

[Jason]

Seroquel gave me diabeties! I have never had blood problems, now I'm off the charts after 3 years of use! I plan on getting some kind of recourse, because I never would have guessed that an FDA approoved medicine prescribed by a DR. could do such damage!There must be something a lawyer can do for a person in my predicamate.

[Kevin Mccarthy]

KARMA wrote:

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I haven't heard of this. I'm pretty sure that is what I get from the VA. I'll try to do some research, and if you find out, please let me know.

Humulin R500 is a highly concentrated insulin for those with extreme insulin resistance. The drug is manufactured by Eli Lilly and comes in 20 ML vials. I take two shots a day of 25 units including two shots a day of Novolin N, 60 units. Any information you can find about medicares denial please let me know.

[pumpkin]

I am taking 15 units of Humalog with each meal. Have you all heard about the mercury (Theromosal) in insulin? I have recently read some articles about mercury in vaccines. I don't know if it is still being used and how much in is a bottle of insulin. I also have had two rhogam shots one in 1992 and one in 2002. I know that the earlier shot contained mercury, but I am not sure about the later one.

[gary caldwell]

jbg wrote:

is anyone participating in the mass tort seroquel lawsuit? Have any info about it?

I am in a claim that seroqluel gabe me daibeter and also is almosy an hallucogenic drug They say that Judge Conway from florida is sending all the cases back to Mass.

[gary caldwell]

It is a dangerous drug that would not let me sleep or have energy and I got diabetes had my gall bladder removed started passing out one time a year for the last four years. he latest message I received is tht all of Judge Conways cases will go back to Mass. courts and people will be notified this week or next good luck

[KARMA]

AstraZeneca Can&#8217;t Stop Testimony by Seroquel Expert Witness

-Bloomberg

06/20/2009 - AstraZeneca Plc can&#8217;t block testimony by a medical expert that its antipsychotic Seroquel can cause weight gain and diabetes, a federal judge ruled.

The witness, Donna Arnett, professor and chairwoman of the epidemiology department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, contends that Seroquel causes metabolic changes, which can lead to diabetes without weight gain. She also contends metabolic risks occur with Seroquel throughout treatment, according to court papers.

AstraZeneca, based in London, sought to have Arnett disqualified, saying she cherry-picked data favorable to her opinion. U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway said yesterday that Arnett will be allowed to testify in Seroquel trials, with a jury deciding whether her conclusions are credible.

&#8220;The admissibility of Dr. Arnett&#8217;s general causation testimony is a close question,&#8221; Conway said in her 39-page decision. &#8220;The court finds that any weaknesses in Dr. Arnett&#8217;s methodology bear on the weight of her testimony, not its ultimate admissibility.&#8221;

The decision will apply to about 6,000 cases pending in federal court in Orlando, Florida, said plaintiffs&#8217; attorney Paul Pennock.

&#8216;Tremendously Important&#8217;

&#8220;This is tremendously important,&#8221; Pennock said in an interview. &#8220;Clearly, the federal judge recognizes these cases are going to trial.&#8221;

Tony Jewell, an AstraZeneca spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement, &#8220;The heart of these cases are unproven claims that Seroquel causes diabetes in individual patients.&#8221;

&#8220;Judges at both the federal and state levels have dismissed the initial cases prepared for trial, concluding that plaintiffs did not have sufficient evidence to establish that Seroquel was responsible for their alleged injuries,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In the cases prepared for trial to date, plaintiffs have been repeatedly unable to prove their claims in court.&#8221;

More than 15,000 patients have sued AstraZeneca in state and federal courts, claiming the company withheld information about a connection between diabetes and Seroquel use from doctors and users of the drug. The federal cases are combined in a multidistrict litigation before Conway.

Seroquel, which generated sales of $4.45 billion last year, is AstraZeneca&#8217;s second-biggest seller after the ulcer treatment Nexium.

AstraZeneca won dismissal in January of the first two cases set for trial in federal court in Orlando. Conway threw out the claims, ruling that two former Seroquel users couldn&#8217;t prove the drug contributed to their development of diabetes.

AstraZeneca last month also won dismissal of the first state case set for trial in Delaware after the judge excluded an expert linking Seroquel use to the plaintiff&#8217;s diabetes.

The case is In Re Seroquel Products Litigation, 06-MD-01769, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (Orlando).

I think this comment says it all...
&#8220;This is tremendously important,&#8221; Pennock said in an interview. &#8220;Clearly, the federal judge recognizes these cases are going to trial.&#8221;

AstraZeneca has been lucky so far, but once we get them in court, a jury will wear their sorry butts out. Smoke & Mirrors are over, We just need a fair judge, and a jury. We will get JUSTICE!!!!

[pumpkin]

I read today that the Florida Court has now approved 3 expert witnesses for the plaintiffs.

[gary caldwell]

jbg wrote:

where have you gotton your info from. i am with baily perrin and baily. were you in the zyprexa lawsuit also. any info appreciated.

I got my info from the seroqluel news. I am a cllient for bailey perrin and bailey and the way I understand it and zyprexa with howard nations there is about nine thousand counting lower courts and states. I have had three pass out , one broke some bones in the lower back, now have pain meds all the time. I have part of the settlement form zyprexa and the rest ins in garretson resolution group for medicaid. Probably the same when seroqulel if the plantiffs win. I heard that they were going to send every thling backe to Mass from a person who honed me from bailey perrin and bailey so I really do not know what to thank as they move from ms conway to another state let me know what you know and do you think astrazenaca will make a deal since they ade so much off of it anyway

[gary caldwell]

the last news I heard grom a phone call from a man who works at bailey errin and bailey is that I should get a letter this week that ms conway is sending all the cases back to Mass courts I knoe it is a bad drug and my age allmessed up and disoreinted ty

[KARMA]

All this waiting sucks! I guess the New Jersey trials in Jan 2010 are next?

[pumpkin]

I have heard nothing from Bailey Perrin and Bailey.

[pumpkin]

Study may prompt rethink on schizophrenia drugs
Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:04am EDT

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By Ben Hirschler

LONDON (Reuters)- Schizophrenia patients given a cheap older drug are less likely to die prematurely than people on newer treatments, despite the older product's well-known adverse side effects, Finnish researchers said on Monday.

The finding may lead to wider use of clozapine -- sold by Novartis as Clozaril, but also available as a generic -- instead of newer drugs like AstraZeneca's Seroquel, the current market leader.

Clozapine was the first of a new generation of schizophrenia drugs, known as atypical antipsychotics, but its use has been restricted by health authorities because of safety concerns, and patients taking it require regular blood tests.

Despite this, an analysis of 10 years' records for 67,000 patients in Finland found that, compared with treatment with the first-generation drug perphenazine, the risk of early death for patients on clozapine was reduced by 26 percent.

By contrast, mortality risk was 41 percent higher for those on Seroquel, known chemically as quetiapine; 34 percent higher with Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal, or resperidone; and 13 percent higher with Eli Lilly's Zyprexa, or olanzapine.

"We know that clozapine has the highest efficacy of all the antipsychotics and it is now clear, after all, that it is not that risky or dangerous a treatment," study leader Jari Tiihonen of the University of Kuopio said in a telephone interview.

"We should consider whether clozapine should be used as a first-line treatment option."

THOUSANDS OF PREMATURE DEATHS

Tiihonen estimates clozapine is given to around one fifth of Finnish schizophrenia patients, but less than 5 percent in the United States.

Clozapine's side effects include agranulocytosis, a potentially fatal decline in white blood cells, and current rules stipulate the drug can only be used after two unsuccessful trials with other antipsychotics.

Tiihonen and colleagues wrote in the Lancet medical journal that these restrictions should be reassessed in the light of their findings, since not using the drug may have caused thousands of premature deaths worldwide.

But Les Iversen, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Oxford in Britain, who wasn't involved in the study, said the risk of agranulocytosis was serious and should not be under estimated.

"For this reason, clozapine has become a drug of last resort -- and will probably remain so," he said.

Seroquel, Zyprexa and Risperdal are among the world's top-selling drugs, with combined sales of $12.5 billion in 2008, though Risperdal now faces generic competition.

Worries about the safety profile of all the atypical antipsychotics have loomed large since 2002, however, following evidence of increased rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Continued...
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I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS GOING TO GET A FAIR SETTLEMENT DUE TO THE FACT THAT SEROQUEL IS STILL ON THE MARKET!

[pumpkin]

Monday, July 20, 2009
Seroquel Expert Non-Causation Order
We can't say much about this, as Herrmann is on vacation and Bexis is involved in the Seroquel litigation. The MDL judge today ruled on the defendant's motion to exclude various "non-causation" opinions/testimony by the plaintiff's experts. Here is a brief summary of what Judge Conway excluded:

* "[N]arrative history" of the defendant's "marketing and labeling practices." Slip op. at 7.
* "[S]tate of mind, intent, motives, or ethics of [defendant] or any of its employees." Slip op. at 8.
* "[F]oreign labeling regulations or foreign regulatory actions concerning [the drug]." Slip op. at 8.
* "[T]hat [defendant] defrauded the FDA in connection with [the drug's] NDA." Slip op. at 10-11.
* "[W]hether the format or contents of the NDA comply with FDA regulations." Slip op. at 11.
* "[W]hether physicians generally read and comprehend drug labels, or whether doctors generally understand the contents of the [drug's] label." Slip op. at 13.
* "[T]esti[mony] that, in general and without regard to any particular patient,[the drug] is unsafe or the drug's risks outweigh its benefits." Slip op. at 15.

Posted by Beck/Herrmann at 8:21 AM
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[gary caldwell]

This guy from bailey perrin and bailey don't sound much like a lawyer. For one the expert is supposed to witness and just because a couple of clients get their reports thrown out doen's mean a hill f beans. You must be pretty young not to know that one day you don't have diabetes and next day you do. I had to have a gall bladder removed, then I started passing out about one time a year for four years. Ths last one was last week and I have to give up my driving licens. 46 years of driving and maybe it was hypnotizing me but when you start passing kout it is unreal. Also I head in the topix news that Ms judge conway had thrown all those cases that were hers back to Mass. And the judge garruto or whatever doesn't have a clue of these enormous drug companies flirting with congress How would you like your kids on seroquel. I believe that ten to fifty mg may be alright but they were giving me three hundred a night. I was a t the verge of hallucanating could not walk fifty feet and could not ssleep cause the breathing would wuit It is bad in big dosed. but so is aspirin. I do not like to hear that a person gets sick anymore than a child with a cold. And when you reach sisty of fifty five and things go wrong with your metabolism you will nkknow that I mean til then be robin hood

[pumpkin]

IDK what the previous post is talking about. My posting is a list of Excluded items for testimony. It is not from BPBlaw. It's from a law blog that is tracking the Seroquel Cases. I am just trying to keep everyone informed about what is going on in court.

Good Luck

[pumpkin]

I am going to the doc today for shortness of breath and chest pains. Now I have Heart problems in addition to all of the other stuff associated with diabetes.

I am 42 and I am scared. How long do I really have?
Will I see my grandchildren?

All of this because some old guys in suits thought it was ok to put the poison (Seroquel) out on the market.

Oh yeah and the neuropathy...sometimes if feels like my feet are on fire.

I hope we win while I'm still alive.

[gary caldwell]

jbg wrote:

where have you gotton your info from. i am with baily perrin and baily. were you in the zyprexa lawsuit also. any info appreciated.

I was in the zyprexa case and am following bpb on the seroqluel case.l I want to let you know after years of meds in the va these new ones are out to get the public. the latest I heard on seroquel was ms conway is sending all the claims to maxx. the trials start in Jan These unsealed med from aztra zenaca are to be opened today by the eway good to talk with you and I am in some other law suits too such as the latest was ametropptol pulled because of heart attacks. isosorbode mononitrate also good luck in law. I lived in an abandoned mining town near bib bend for five years and non how sullen the studies of text are good luck on your future I finally bought a degree for social work after twenty years as a pastor and public relations firm in the christian home of el paso It has a web site

[KARMA]

pumpkin wrote:

I am going to the doc today for shortness of breath and chest pains. Now I have Heart problems in addition to all of the other stuff associated with diabetes.
I am 42 and I am scared. How long do I really have?
Will I see my grandchildren?
All of this because some old guys in suits thought it was ok to put the poison (Seroquel) out on the market.
Oh yeah and the neuropathy...sometimes if feels like my feet are on fire.
I hope we win while I'm still alive.

Hang in there pumpkin. I too suffer from chest pain and shortness of breath. Mine was anxiety. Neuropathy is no fun. My feet also burn at times. I'm 41 insulin dependent now beacause of those greedy SOB's. I have pancreatitis and a growing tumor. I think there should be criminal charges filed as well. This was premeditated by greedy SOB's.