A lawsuit against SmithKline Beecham Corp. over the suicide of 23-year-old Tricia Mason, who ended her life two days after taking the antidepressant Paxil, can go forward, the 7th Circuit ruled this week.
In a unanimous Tuesday decision reversing the lower court, the appeals court said that the drug manufacturer now known as GlaxoSmithKline didn’t meet its burden of showing with "clear evidence" that the Food and Drug Administration would have rejected a change in the drug’s labeling to warn about the enhanced possibility of suicide in young adults.
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