<div id="subtitle">Just-unsealed Seroquel documents show maker AstraZeneca knew of links to diabetes, weight gain</div><div><p>Internal AstraZeneca reports and e-mails written by company officials show they knew a decade ago that their psychiatric drug Seroquel caused diabetes and major weight gain, plaintiffs' lawyers said Friday after releasing dozens ...

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<div><p>US drugmaker Eli Lilly pleaded guilty to violating US law in its marketing of anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa and will pay 1.42 billion dollars to settle criminal and civil allegations, officials said Thursday.</p><p>Eli Lilly said it had entered a misdemeanor plea for violation of federal law in ...

A new NIMH-funded grant will examine ways to control the metabolic side effects associated with the use of the newer atypical antipsychotic medications in children with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
The use of atypical antipsychotic medications to treat children and adolescents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder is relatively common, but the side effects associated with them are troubling. The recent ...