Jury Decides Wyeth’s Prempro Caused Woman’s Cancer
Submitted by admin on September 25, 2009 – 9:40 pmNo Comment | 37 views
Bloomberg news reports that a jury has found Wyeth’s hormone-replacement therapy drug Prempro caused an Illinois woman’s invasive breast cancer and she deserves $3.7 million.
Connie Barton, 64, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, five years after she began taking Prempro to treat menopausal symptoms. Jurors will hear arguments on Wyeth’s liability at a second phase of the trial starting on October 1.
Wyeth has said that it faces more than 9,000 lawsuits over its menopause drugs, along with Pfizer’s Pharmacia & Upjohn unit (Wyeth is being acquired by Pfizer Inc.). The company lost four of seven cases over its hormone-replacement drugs since they began going to trial in 2006.
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