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To: Anthony Wong who wrote (1350)	1/25/1999 8:50:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (3) of 1722

Key Dates for Popular Drug Prozac Sunday January 24 1:59 PM ET By The Associated Press A glance at key dates for Prozac: 1983 - Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE:LLY - news) submits an application to the Food and Drug Administration to sell Prozac for the treatment of depression. 1987 - FDA approves application in December. 1988 - Lilly begins U.S. sales. 1989 - Prozac-user Joseph Wesbecher shoots 27 people, seven of them fatally, at a Louisville, Ky., printing plant before killing himself. A jury eventually would find the drug did not cause Wesbecher's rampage. 1990 - Harvard researchers published a study showing some Prozac patients suffered suicidal thoughts. Subsequent attacks on the drug's safety by the Church of Scientology help prompt Lilly to make a standing offer to defend any doctor who prescribes the drug. Lilly also helps prosecutors battle the so-called ''Prozac defense'' in which dozens of criminal defendants attribute their misdeeds to the drug's effect on their thinking. 1992 - Annual worldwide sales of Prozac top $1 billion. 1995 - Barr Laboratories, saying the Prozac patents are flawed, asks the Food and Drug Administration for permission to sell a generic version of Prozac. 1996 - Lilly files patent infringement lawsuit against Barr in U.S. District Court. A separate lawsuit against Geneva Pharmaceuitcals later is consolidated with it. Monday - Trial on the lawsuit set to begin. Pending are Lilly's patent infringement cases against three other generic drug companies, Zenith-Goldline, Teva and Reddy-Cheminor.

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