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Wyeth must pay $134.1 million in menopause drug lawsuit

Posted: October 16, 2007 Pharmaceutical

Wyeth must pay $134.1 million, including $99 million in punitive damages, over its mishandling of menopause drugs that helped cause three Nevada women’s cancers, a jury ruled.

Wyeth fights more than 5,000 hrt lawsuits nationwide

Posted: October 12, 2007 Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical giant Wyeth, ordered by a Washoe County jury to pay millions to three Northern Nevada women who claimed the company’s hormone replacement drugs caused their breast cancer, also is fighting more than 5,000 legal battles, a spokesman said Thursday.

Jury awards 3 women $134.5 million in hormone therapy lawsuit

Posted: October 12, 2007 Pharmaceutical

Reno, Nev., (AP) – A jury has levied a $134.5 million judgment against the pharmaceutical maker Wyeth in a lawsuit filed by three Nevada women who contended that the company’s hormone-replacement drugs had caused their breast cancer.

Prempro lawsuit goes to the jury

Posted: October 10, 2007 Pharmaceutical

After four weeks of testimony and a full day of closing arguments, jurors will begin deliberating this morning to decide whether pharmaceutical giant Wyeth is responsible for the breast cancer suffered by three Northern Nevada women who took the company’s

HRT sales rep whistleblower admits improper promotion

Posted: October 5, 2007 Pharmaceutical

The Reno trial involving three breast cancer survivors who are suing Wyeth is now nearing the end of its fourth week. The Nevada plaintiffs are suing Wyeth, the manufacturer of Prempro and Premarin, after they each developed breast cancer attributed