Suicide Attempts Prozac 07/02/1991 U.S.A. Two New Cases of Suicide Attempts Reported in New England Journal of Medicine
Suicide Attempts	Prozac	1991-02-07	U.S.A.	Two New Cases of Suicide Attempts Reported in New England Journal of Medicine 
 
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Summary:<br><br><div>First two paragraphs read:&nbsp; &quot;<strong>Doctors have reported two more cases of suicidal behavior and suicidal fantasies that they believe can only be explained by the effects of the widely publicized anti-depressant drug Prozac.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;The new cases were described in a letter in Thursday`s issue of The New<br />England Journal of Medicine. The physicians said the two cases differed from previous published reports of suicidal behavior linked to Prozac because the two patients had never before shown signs of wanting to kill themselves.&quot;<br /><br /></strong>______________________________________________________________________<br />NEW CASES OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR LINKED TO ANTI-DEPRESSANT <strong>PROZAC<br /></strong>Chicago Tribune<br />February 7, 1991<br />Author: New York Times News Service. <br />Estimated printed pages: 1 <br /><img src="../localhost/C_/Program%20Files/Eudora%20Pro/Embedded/186d5741.jpg" alt="[]" width="1" height="1" /> <br /><br />Doctors have reported two more cases of suicidal behavior and suicidal<br /><br />fantasies that they believe can only be explained by the effects of the widely publicized anti-depressant drug <strong>Prozac</strong>.<br /><br />The new cases were described in a letter in Thursday`s issue of The New<br /><br />England Journal of Medicine. The physicians said the two cases differed from<br /><br />previous published reports of suicidal behavior linked to <strong>Prozac</strong> because the<br /><br />two patients had never before shown signs of wanting to kill themselves.<br /><br />But Eli Lilly and Co. of Indianapolis, maker of <strong>Prozac</strong>, as well as many<br /><br />other physicians, deny there is any scientific merit to the charge that the<br /><br />drug can prompt suicidal or violent acts. The company argues its product is,<br /><br />in fact, less likely to make patients suicidal than other anti-depressants. <br /><strong>Prozac</strong>, the commercial form of the compound fluoxetine, is already the<br /><br />center of a sharp legal and medical dispute.<br /><br />More than 50 lawsuits have been filed against Lilly. One involves former<br /><br />rock star Del Shannon, who was taking <strong>Prozac</strong> when he committed <strong>suicide</strong> in Los Angeles last year.<br /><br />Like most of the others, the suit by Shannon`s wife, Leanne Westover,<br /><br />charges the pharmaceutical company with ``improper testing`` of <strong>Prozac</strong> and ``a failure to warn the medical community of the dangerous propensities that<br /><br /><strong>Prozac</strong> can produce in a small number of cases,`` said Leonard Finz, a New York lawyer, the lead counsel in the Shannon case and now the most prominent legal crusader against <strong>Prozac</strong>. <br />Edition:&nbsp; NORTH SPORTS FINAL<br />Section:&nbsp; NEWS<br />Page:&nbsp; 14<br />Index Terms: REPORT<strong>; </strong>MEDICINE<strong>; </strong>CAUSE<strong>; SUICIDE; </strong>VICTIM<strong>; </strong>STATISTIC<strong>; </strong>BEHAVIOR&nbsp;<br />Record Number:&nbsp; CTR9101120010 <br /><br />OpenURL Article Bookmark (right click, and copy the link location):<br /><a href="http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:CTRB&amp;rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&amp;rft_dat=0FFEFE602ED7064A&amp;svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&amp;req_dat=0FC00B934DD580D0">NEW CASES OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR LINKED TO ANTI-DEPRESSANT PROZAC</a><br /><br /></div> 
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