EU rejects widow’s complaints over Seroxat risk concerns

THE European Ombudsman has rejected complaints by the widow of a Corkman who died by suicide that EU bodies failed to adequately review concerns she raised about the safety of the anti-depressant drug, Seroxat.

However, the ruling only came after the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) addressed warnings by the EU ombudsman that they had possibly been guilty of maladministration in their dealings with Nuria O’Mahony.

The nurse from Bandon, Co Cork, maintains that her husband, Niall, 39, took his own life as a result of taking Seroxat. The father-of-three was found dead on December 26, 2003 — within two weeks after he first began taking the controversial drug.