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Judge cuts Pfizer's $78.7M Prempro award
A Pfizer Inc.unit persuaded a Pennsylvania state court judge to slash a $78.7 million damage award to a woman who blamed the company's hormone-replacement drug Prempro for her breast cancer. Judge Norman Ackerman in Philadelphia today reduced a $75...
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Business news in brief
In the Region Cephalon buys Swiss company Biotechnology company Cephalon Inc.said it would buy privately held Swiss drug company Mepha AG for $590 million. Cephalon, Frazer, said the acquisition doubles its international business and lets it serve all...
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Judge cuts Pfizer's $78.7M Prempro award
A Pfizer Inc.unit persuaded a Pennsylvania state court judge to slash a $78.7 million damage award to a woman who blamed the company's hormone-replacement drug Prempro for her breast cancer. Judge Norman Ackerman in Philadelphia today reduced a $75...
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Judge cuts Pfizers $78.7M Prempro award
Thank you for registering!Please note that your registration will not be considered fully complete until you confirm by following the link we have provided in a confirmation email that was just sent to $cms.subscriptionUser.email! Judge cuts Pfizers $78.7M...
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Pennsylvania Judge Reduces Punitive Award Related to Wyeth's Prempro Case o $5.6M (PFE)
Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE) Wyeth unit has convinced a Pennsylvania judge to reduce a $78.7 million punitive-award to just $5.6 million.In the case, a women, Connie Barton, blamed that the company's menopause drugs led to her breast cancer. Pennsylvania Judge...
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Defense Takes Aim at Causation in HRT Opening Arguments
The deceased plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging a Wyeth-made hormone replacement therapy drug caused her death from breast cancer has a surviving identical twin who has not had breast cancer.Both the plaintiffs and the defense attorneys sought to leverage to...
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Latest HRT trial under way
Tags: HRT litigation, Prempro, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Proceedings have started in the latest bellwether trial in hormone replacement therapy mass tort litigation in state court in Pennsylvania.Cheryl Foust, 56, of Abingdon, Ind. Latest HRT trial under...
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Has Wyeth-Pfizer Learned Anything From the Ghostwriting Scandal?
(Martha Rosenberg) Like Wall Street firms bestowing bonuses weeks after government bailouts, Premarin and Prempro maker Wyeth, recently merged with Pfizer, is unbowed.Months after a Sen. Charles Grassley-led investigation into its ghostwriting and...
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Drug litigation preview
Plaintiffs and defense bars gird for legal battles Staff writer Tags: Avandia, Botox, Digitek, drug litigation, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, hormone replacement therapy, Neurontin, off-label uses, preemption, Prempro, Vioxx, whistleblower, Wyeth v....
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Pogust Braslow & Millrood Receives Award for Plaintiffs' Law Firm of the Year, 2009
PBM recognized as top product liability firm for its role in attaining million-dollar verdicts for women alleging that Wyeth and Pfizer??s popular menopause drugs Prempro and Provera caused them breast cancer.Conshohocken, PA (PRWEB) January 11, 2010 -...
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Pogust Braslow & Millrood Receives Award for Plaintiffs' Law Firm of the Year, 2009
(PRWeb.com via COMTEX) ----Pogust Braslow & Millrood (PBM) announces that it has been named one of the Plaintiffs' Product Liability Firms of the Year by the industry leading Law360 group.The award was given to PBM, recognizing it as one of the top firms...
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Appeals Court Reinstates More Than 100 Lawsuits Against Makers Of HRT Prempro
The 8th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Wednesday reinstated more than 100 lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies filed by women or their surviving relatives claiming that the companies' hormone replacement therapy drugs caused breast...
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Medical News: Appeals Court Reinstates More Than 100 Lawsuits Against Makers Of HRT Prempro
The 8th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Wednesday reinstated more than 100 lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies filed by women or their surviving relatives claiming that the companies' hormone replacement therapy drugs caused breast...
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Wyeth Is As Contrite As AIG
Like Wall Street firms bestowing bonuses weeks after government bailouts, Premarin and Prempro maker Wyeth, recently merged with Pfizer, is unbowed.Months after a Sen. Charles Grassley-led investigation into its ghostwriting and the unretracted...
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Big Pharma endures big fines and continues business as usual
to a friend Printable Version FREE Email Newsletter Articles Related to This Article: Pfizer pleads guilty to felony crime in fraudulent marketing of Bextra, pays billions in fines Viagra Now Being Increasingly Used as a Recreational Drug By Younger Men: Is...
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Appeals Court Sends Ark Prempro Cases Back To Minn
A copy was sent to your e-mail address PrintShare + Digg Facebook del.icio.us Fark Twitter Jan 6, 2010 6:06 pm US/Pacific Appeals Court Sends Ark Prempro Cases Back To Minn CHUCK BARTELS, Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark.(AP) A federal appeals...
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Manassas Park woman sues drug company over breast cancer
While on a weekend vacation with friends, the Manassas Park resident found a lump in her right breast during her shower.She had been taking Premarin and Prempro, two hormone therapy drugs that have been under scrutiny for potentially causing breast...
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Appeals Court Sends Ark Prempro Cases Back To Minn
CHUCK BARTELS, Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark.(AP) A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated more than 100 lawsuits against drug companies filed by women or their surviving relatives who claimed that hormone replacement therapy caused breast...
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Appeals court sends Prempro cases back to state
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated more than 100 lawsuits against drug companies filed by women or their surviving relatives who claimed that hormone replacement therapy caused breast cancer. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Appeals court sends Ark Prempro cases back to Minn
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated more than 100 lawsuits against drug companies filed by women or their surviving relatives who claimed that hormone replacement therapy caused breast cancer. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Appeals court sends Ark Prempro cases back to Minn
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated more than 100 lawsuits against drug companies filed by women or their surviving relatives who claimed that hormone replacement therapy caused breast cancer. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Appeals court sends Ark Prempro cases back to Minn
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated more than 100 lawsuits against drug companies filed by women or their surviving relatives who claimed that hormone replacement therapy caused breast cancer.The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis...
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Womens bodies not for drug trials
In 1979, my mother died of endometrial cancer, almost certainly caused by the huge doses of estrogen she had taken for a decade at the recommendation of her doctor to hold off the symptoms of menopause.Columns and blogs Twenty years later, before I had even...
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Drop in Hormone Use, Cancer Linked
Posted in breast cancer, Cancer, estrogen, hormones, HRT, women's health The declining use of hormone therapy among women has led to 6,000 fewer invasive breast cancer cases a year, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
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Pfizer Must Face Menopause-Drug Award, Court Finds
31 (Bloomberg) -- A Pfizer Inc.unit must face a $1.5 million damage award over one of its menopause drugs, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled. A Philadelphia trial judge erred in throwing out the jury verdict against Pfizers Pharmacia & Upjohn unit...
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