FDA Regulation “Hurts” for Depression Drug Maker Eli Lilly
It was supposed to replace Prozac profits when the patent expired in 2001 and cash in on the national love affair with antidepressants.
But Eli Lilly & Co.’s Cymbalta (duloxetine) seemed cursed from the start.
The first antidepressant to be introduced since FDA investigations into suicide/antidepressant links, Cymbalta itself was marred with suicides before it was approved.
Five occurred during Cymbalta clinical trials including previously healthy volunteer Traci Johnson who hung herself in Lilly’s Indiana University Medical School lab in 2004. Continue reading
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