N.Y. Attorney General Claims GSK Misrepresented Pediatric Safety of Paxil

NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed suit against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) June 2 claiming that the company concealed data from studies designed to investigate the safety and efficacy of Paxil in pediatric patients. The People of the State of New York v. GlaxoSmithKline PLC, No. n/a (N.Y. Sup. Ct., New York Cty.).

The lawsuit, which was filed in the New York Supreme Court for New York County, seeks $2,000 for each plaintiff who received the antidepressant, disgorgement of all profits GSK made from the sale of Paxil in New York for pediatric patients and an injunction compelling …