AstraZeneca seems to be winning its war against the 10,000 plaintiffs who claim Seroquel causes weight gain and diabetes. A judge ruled that there was not enough evidence that Seroquel triggered a woman's diabetes because she was already unhealthy by the time she started taking the drug. In Thursday’s case, Judge Joseph Slights III ruled that a medical expert could not say that Nina Scaife's diabetes was specifically caused by the drug.
- AZ has won two summary judgments and a third was withdrawn.
- In Delaware, 108 cases have been dismissed (about 15 percent).
- In the federal multidistrict litigation, 1,881 cases (about 23 percent) have been dismissed either by the judge or by plaintiffs themselves.
AZ is also winning the war in the marketplace: sales of Seroquel rose roughly 10% in the first quarter of 2009 to $1.1 billion despite publicity surrounding the drug.
Excerpted from Bnet.com.
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