Pfizer’s Chantix Linked To Suicide, Aggression
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Pfizer Inc.’s stop-smoking pill Chantix has been linked to more than 3,000 reports in America of serious side effects, including suicides, heart trouble, and aggression, a study said. American regulators should tighten warnings on the pill, prescribed 3.5 million times in America since it was approved in 2006, the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices said in its report. The group analyzed side effects reported to the Food and Drug Administration. The Federal Aviation Administration today banned the use of Chantix by pilots because of the report, spokesman Les Dorr said. The FDA received more accounts of serious side effects tied to Chantix in the fourth quarter than from any other drug, the analysis found.
