Seroquel

AstraZeneca agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle a New York State Attorney General's lawsuit saying the British pharmaceutical company improperly promoted and marketed the schizophrenia drug Seroquel, concealing dangerous side effects such as diabetes from health care providers and the public. New...

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AstraZeneca (AZN) announced Monday it had reached agreements to settle approximately 17,500 Seroquel product liability suits in the U.S. for some $198 million. The suits allege that anti-psychotic Seroquel causes weight-gain diabetes in some patients. The agreements in principle are subject to...

One of the world's largest drug companies, AstraZeneca, agreed to pay $520 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit claiming the company encouraged doctors to prescribe an anti-psychotic drug to children, veterans and the elderly outside its intended use. Seroquel is approved by the U.S. Food...

It was just at the end of October that the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study which found that children taking the latest generation of antipsychotic drugs gain significant amounts of weight -- as much as 18.7 pounds on average in just 11 weeks. Young people taking Eli...

It can sometimes be tough to get a straight answer about any potential problems with drugs from the companies that make them, if court records are any guide. AstraZeneca (AZN) told American doctors the company's antipsychotic drug Seroquel didn't cause diabetes, despite alerting Japanese physicians...