J&J Janssen reported to have settled Risperdal case

GO to 1 Boring Old Man read to UPDATE in this post at Boring Old Man blog Reports there settlement talk

Also in that post: J&J Hid 3 Risperdal Diabetes Studies From FDA, Texas Jury Told--Bloomberg

Glenmullen testified


"Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Johnson & Johnson officials hid three studies showing some patients using Risperdal developed diabetes while claiming the antipsychotic drug didn’t cause the disease, a witness testified.

As early as 1999, Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen unit had researchers’ findings that about half the patients taking Risperdal in a study comparing its risks to those of Eli Lilly & Co.’s Zyprexa antipsychotic drug developed diabetes after a year on the medication, Joseph Glenmullen, a psychiatrist and Harvard Medical School instructor, told a Texas jury yesterday.

That study concluded Risperdal caused “medically serious weight gain” that led study subjects to develop diabetes, Glenmullen testified in the trial of the state of Texas’s lawsuit over Janssen’s marketing of the drug. At the same time, Janssen salespeople were telling doctors that researchers concluded the drug didn’t cause the disease, Glenmullen added."

Source: Johnson & Johnson Settles Suit With Texas