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GlaxoSmithKline is caught in Seroxat crossfire.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2004
By Ian Lyall, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 30--GlaxoSmithKline is facing more flak over its controversial antidepressant Seroxat.
The company is getting it in the neck over a leaked memo urging sales staff to withhold sensitive information on the drug from doctors in the US.
And a Panorama investigation for the BBC will reveal that regulators have known for 13 years of the treat-ment's link with suicide.
To add to its woes, filmmaker Michael Moore has his lens trained on the pharmaceuticals giant for a documentary on corporate America. "Fahrenheit 9/11," his epic on George Bush and the Iraq war, caused uproar when it was screened in the US.
Glaxo shares fell 18p to UKpound 11.91. It was...
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