AstraZeneca Seroquel - 1 boring old man blog, isn't the least bit boring

 

I don't need to write commentary for this post...for 1 Boring Old Man Blog speaks with such knowledge, experience, insight, eloquence, and wisdom; that I will let his words speak for themselves....

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the darker side… 

 

Posted on Wednesday 7 September 2011

When one sees the size of the settlements in the civil suits against the pharmaceutical industry, the numbers [in the millions] seem impressive. Then if you look at the corporate profits [in billions], those settlements don’t look quite so large anymore. So we make the same old "cost of doing business" comment and wish for bigger settlements. Now there’s a blog I hadn’t seen before, the Seroquel Lawsuit Blog, that is looking at things from another perspective – the patient’s perspective, one case at a time – posting the letters from the law firms to the plaintiffs adding another level of complexity as the firms negotiate the settements and extract their legal fees. Stephany of the Soulful Sepulcher blog has posted a number of the documents from the site. That’s where I ran across it. It’s getting pretty complicated, as the Law firms are now going after the Seroquel Lawsuit Blog‘s anonymous blogger for posting their letters to their clients.

It’s really a discouraging story, the kind that takes its toll on your world view. The pharmaceutical company keeps the downsides of their product secret. If the injured parties succeed in a suit against them for the resulting damages, their lawyers keep their negotiations of a settlement with their clients secret. The pharmaceutical company’s lawyers and the plaintiff’s lawyers end up making a killing. The payoffs to the injured patients are fairly paltry. Then the pharmaceutical companies factor their settlements and legal fees back into their subsequent drug pricing. It’s not slightly pretty. So take a look at the Seroquel Lawsuit Blog, looking back through the older entries for an inside peek at yet another dark side to this already dark enough story…

 

As for insight into the drug Seroquel; these following links will provide you with a wealth of information

seroquel I: introduction to an “atypical”…
seroquel II: phase IIIa…
seroquel II [version 2.0]: guessing…
seroquel III: their best shot…
seroquel IV: ooching…
seroquel V: through the looking glass…
seroquel VI: the fda finale…
seroquel VI: an mid-course interlude…
seroquel VIII: sins of ommission…
seroquel IX: weighty matters…
seroquel X: matters cerebral Serebral…
seroquel XI: through a glass darkly…
seroquel XII: an opinionated postscript…
and the series continues on.......
selling seroquel I: background…
selling seroquel II: into the fray…
selling seroquel III: the data factories…
selling seroquel IV: way off label…
selling seroquel: a mid-winter break…
selling seroquel V: driving the brand…
selling seroquel VI: claims…
selling seroquel VII: indication sprawl…
selling seroquel VIII: CRO-Charts…
contents of an empty mind……
the clinical research industry: time-to-market and beyond…
the clinical research industry: the CRCs…
we interrupt this program for… gulp…
the clinical research industry: the cro running in the background…
the clinical research industry: an invisible empire…
the clinical reasearch industry: the ‘atypical’ decade…
patent medicines…
Seroquel XR: an extended release…
supercharged placebos…
atypical augmentation: statistical but irrelevant… 

and this week...

the system…