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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342230,00.html

NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is investigating a possible link between Merck's best-selling Singulair and suicide.

FDA said it is reviewing a handful of reports involving mood changes, suicidal behavior and suicide in patients who have taken the popular allergy and asthma drug.

Merck has updated the drug's labeling four times in the past year to include information on a range of reported side effects: tremors, anxiousness, depression and suicidal behavior.

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they are investigating because some sucides/attempts showed up but the number of cases in the study was so small that it is not definiative at this time
what you would tell your patient? tell them iof they are having any problems they should report to doctor or pharmacist

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If I get one more phone call from an anxious parent at the pediactricians office I work in, I may jump out the window. I wish the news was a little more cautious in how they report these studies. That fact that it is "a POSSIBLE link" and that thiis is all "NOT DEFINATIVE at this time" goes right past the laypersons head. It scares them and the general public loves to believe what the media says even if their doctors are telling them the med is safe.