Seroquel Diabetes Side Effects were known by AstraZeneca in 2000
As the first lawsuits over Seroquel gear up for trial early next year, internal documents that were previously kept from the public by a Court confidentiality order have been disclosed during a recent hearing and reported by Bloomberg News. These documents suggest that AstraZeneca was aware of the Seroquel diabetes side effects as early as 2000, yet they failed to provide any warning to consumers for years.
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The documents were revealed as part of a motions hearing last week, where the Court heard challenges from AstraZeneca about the qualifications of certain expert witnesses to testify at the first scheduled case, which is set to begin February 2, 2009.
At the hearings, internal documents were disclosed where AstraZeneca’s Global Safety Officer, Wayne Geller, concluded that studies and data which became available to the drug maker very early on, provided “reasonable evidence to suggest Seroquel therapy can cause” diabetes and related conditions.
Prior to the filing of these motions, AstraZeneca made several attempts to keep documents and other information that would be disclosed at the motions hearing from public disclosure.
The documents were ultimately revealed after Seroquel attorneys for the Plaintiffs Steering Committee successfully argued that AstraZeneca was attempting to convert the litigation into something isolated and private, which failed to recognize the substantial public interest in keeping these Seroquel lawsuits public, as the litigation involves the health and lives of millions of users.
Even as the first cases selected for early trials in the litigation head to court, the Seroquel attorneys at Saiontz & Kirk, P.A. continue to review and investigate new cases for users of Seroquel who have been diagnosed with diabetes or pancreatitis which may have been caused by side effects of the drug.
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