Eli Lilly lied about Zyprexa dangers

The Times has even more on the lies that Eli Lilly told us about Zyprexa. The paper has found that the company continued to tell doctors something entirely different (mostly how good Zyprexa was) when it has data that said the opposite.

"The original results showed that patients on Zyprexa, Lilly’s pill for schizophrenia, were 3.5 times as likely to experience high blood sugar levels as those taking a placebo, according to a February 2000 memo sent to top Lilly scientists," the paper reports. What did the doctors say here? "Only slightly more likely."

Another Lilly report, the Times reports, from November 1999, shows that Lilly found after examining 70 clinical trials that 16 percent of patients taking Zyprexa for a year gained more than 66 pounds. The company did not publicly disclose that figure, instead focusing on data from a smaller group of clinical trials that showed about 30 percent of patients gained 22 pounds.