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Federal appeals court upholds dismissal of Zoloft lawsuit
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 14th, 2004
The lawsuit was originally ordered dismissed by the U.S. District Court in Kansas in 2002. The plaintiffs appealed this decision to the federal appellate court for the Tenth Circuit, which filed its opinion on February 4, 2004.
The case involved a 13-year-old boy who had been diagnosed with depression by a psychiatrist and treated with Zoloft for 6 days, and then either intentionally or accidentally killed himself.
"The district court judge exhaustively reviewed...
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