Wyeth, Pfizer ordered to pay $27 million in punitive damages
A Little Rock, Ark., federal jury found Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Upjohn (a Pfizer unit) liable for $27 million in punitive damages to Donna Scroggin, who sued the drug manufacturers in 2004 after developing breast cancer after taking hormone-replacement therapy. The award includes $19.3 million from Wyeth and $7.7 from Upjohn.
Posted: 58d 10h 14m ago
Hormone Therapy Update
According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide among women.
Posted: 91d 9h 22m ago
High Court May Bar Claims for FDA-Approved Drugs
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in the first of two cases this term that consumer advocates fear could shut courthouse doors to patients injured by FDA-approved drugs or medical devices.
Posted: 2h 52m ago
Prempro User Claims Drug Caused Breast Cancer
A St. Clair County woman claims her use of hormone replacement therapy drugs caused her to develop breast cancer.
Posted: 4h 04m ago
Lawsuit Filed Over HRT Drugs Blamed for Breast Cancer
A Jasper County woman has filed a federal lawsuit against Pfizer and Wyeth, claiming the hormone therapy drugs manufactured by the pharmaceutical companies caused her breast cancer.
Posted: 7h 48m ago
Does Prempro Cause Breast Cancer
A Reno, Nevada jury fixed damages for three women who took Prempro and Premarin at $35 million in compensatory damages. The jury also assessed $99 million in punitive damages against the manufacturer of the drugs.
Posted: 8h 15m ago
Hormone Therapy Led to Cancer
A North Dakota woman has filed a federal lawsuit against several pharmaceutical companies, claiming the hormone replacement drugs she was prescribed led to breast cancer.
Posted: 5h 41m ago
Prempro User Claims Drug Caused Breast Cancer
A St. Clair County woman claims her use of hormone replacement therapy drugs caused her to develop breast cancer.
Posted: 7h 23m ago
Natural Menopause
Oestrogen and progesterone are necessary hormones for reproduction which are produced naturally by a woman's ovaries. At around the age of 50 the body slows down and eventually stops production of these hormones, which brings on the menopause or change of life'.
Posted: 8h 47m ago
Wyeth Must Pay $134.1 Million in Menopause Drug Lawsuit
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.
Posted: 4h 26m ago
Jury Orders Wyeth to Pay Out Millions in HRT Lawsuit
A Washoe County jury has ordered pharmaceutical giant Wyeth to pay more than $43 million each to three Northern Nevada women who claimed in a lawsuit the company's hormone-replacement drugs caused their breast cancer.
Posted: 7h 36m ago
Wyeth Fights More than 5,000 HRT Lawsuits Nationwide
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.
Posted: 8h 21m ago
Jury Awards 3 Women $134.5 Million in Hormone Therapy Lawsuit
A jury has awarded a $134.5 million judgment against the pharmaceutical maker Wyeth in a hormone replacement therapy lawsuit filed by three Nevada women who contended that the company's hormone-replacement drugs had caused their breast cancer.
Posted: 11h 37m ago
Prempro Lawsuit Goes to the Jury
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 hormone replacement drugs.
Posted: 6h 54m ago
HRT Sales Rep Whistleblower Admits Improper Promotion
The Reno trial involving three breast cancer survivors who are suing Wyeth is now nearing the end of its fourth week.
Posted: 3h 25m ago
