Death and distant rumours
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The German publications Der Spiegel and Die Zeit reported as news on 11 November 2011 that some 260 deaths from bleeding had occurred in patients taking Boehringer Ingelheim’s stroke prevention pill Pradaxa. That figure seemed - to those publications and to others - to be at odds with Boehringer's statement in early November that 50 reported deaths was a "reasonable order of magnitude".