Acne drug linked to suicides

A boy taking acne drugs crashed a plane in Florida

Does a drug which is widely used to cure acne, have damaging, possibly fatal side effects? Chris Hogg has been investigating for PM.

Tomorrow a group of campaigners who believe they or their children were damaged mentally and in some cases physically by the drug will meet the UK's medicine's control agency - the MCA.

According to the MCA, fifteen young people have committed suicide in Britain while taking the drug, called Roaccutane.

Its manufacturers, Roche reject the suggestion that the drug is in any way to blame for those deaths. But as our health correspondent Chris Hogg reports, there's concern on both sides of the Atlantic at the effect it might be having on vulnerable teenagers.

In the US, relatives of a 15-year-old boy who deliberately crashed a plane into a Florida skyscraper are suing the drug's manufacturers, claiming it caused him to commit suicide.

How worried is the company which makes Roaccutane about it's potential side effects? We spoke to its UK head of medical affairs Dr Trish Campbell.