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What Is Eli Lilly Trying to Hide?

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In 2006 Eli Lilly agreed to a $750 million settlement of lawsuits filed by 8,000 people who claimed that they contacted diabetes or suffered significant weight gain after being prescribed Lilly’s best-selling drug Zyprexa. Zyprexa is a type of psychiatric drug called a neuroleptic or anti-psychotic. About 18,000 more lawsuits are pending. Attorneys for both sides of these lawsuits agreed to keep the approximately 11 million documents involved secret. Attorney Jim Gottstein, who was not involved in the Zyprexa lawsuits, subpoenaed and obtained copies of documents that were used in the lawsuits from an attorney for the plaintiffs in those lawsuits, who was under court order to keep the documents secret. Mr. Gottstein states he intended to use the documents in another lawsuit. After examining the documents and realizing the extent to which Eli Lilly went to cover up evidence that, according their own researchers, Zyprexa causes serious health problems, such as diabetes, extreme weight gai

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