EU Lifts Suicide Warning on Pfizer's Smoking-Cessation Pill


Europe's main drug regulator has lifted a 7-year-old warning about possible suicidal risks from Chantix, Pfizer's smoking-cessation pill. The European Medicines Agency's ruling could boost sales of Champix, the drug's name in Europe, by reassuring doctors and would-be ex-smokers that the prescription medicine doesn't have dangerous psychiatric side effects.



from Biotech News