This is a problem, he said, because the background rate "is 2-1/2 to 4 percent, depending on who you believe."
Birth Defect Info Request Refused
During the trial, the jury learned that in 2001, Glaxo received two emails from a woman specifically asking for any information Glaxo might have on birth outcomes of babies born to mothers who took Paxil.
The woman reported that she had recently gotten married and immediately became pregnant because they wanted lots of children. But when she was six months along, the pregnancy had to be terminated after tests showed the baby had a rare heart defect and would likely not survive to term or survive the necessary open heart surgery to save his life if born alive.
"To say the least, I was absolutely distraught with this news," the woman said. "I thought this was something that I did ... because I stayed on the Paxil for selfish reasons."
"I wanted to know if you could direct me to any information you might have of any woman that has taken Paxil and still had healthy babies," the woman wrote in late May 2001.
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