Fears haunting GlaxoSmithKline

12 April 2012

FIFTY-SEVEN people have died in Britain after taking the anti-smoking drug Zyban, made by GlaxoSmithKline. But a link between the medicine and the deaths is unproven, says the Medicines Control Agency.

In October, GSK said sales of Zyban had fallen 34% to £22m in the three months to end-September because of media coverage of deaths.

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