US jury says Wyeth drug caused woman's breast cancer
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A jury on Wednesday awarded a woman $1 million and her husband $500,000 in compensatory damages after finding that Wyeth's hormone replacement drug Prempro was a cause of her breast cancer.
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A Los Angeles jury on Friday  cleared a celebrity dermatologist and Botox-maker Allergan Inc.  of claims that they poisoned the wife of former Hollywood movie  studio head Mike Medavoy with injections of the wrinkle cure to  cure headaches.
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Side effects are causing women to stop taking pills that can help keep breast cancer from returning, and women who stop taking the pills risk early death, according to several reports released on Thursday.
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A New Jersey jury found on Monday that Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and it awarded $20 million in compensatory damages.
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NEW YORK  - Many women who've had breast  cancer or are at high risk for the disease take tamoxifen for  years. A new study now shows that long-term tamoxifen use seems  to increase the risk of stroke, although the absolute increase  in risk is small.
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A Los Angeles jury on Friday  cleared Irvine, California-based pharmaceutical company  Allergan Inc. and a prominent dermatologist of claims that they  poisoned the wife of former movie studio head Mike Medavoy with  Botox injections.
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Wyeth WYE.N on Wednesday faced   accusations that one of its hormone replacement therapy (HRT)   drugs caused breast cancer in a 67-year-old woman as one of the   thousands of trials the drug maker is facing over the treatment   got underway.
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The decision comes as a major blow to Wyeth, based in Madison, N.J., which hopes to market the drug as the first nonhormonal treatment for menopausal symptoms.
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Heather McCreery-Choi swallowed her daily dose of Vioxx, an arthritis medication, on Thursday morning, then flipped on the morning news to learn the drug was being pulled from the market because it doubles the risk of heart attacks and strokes after 18
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Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ) is set to begin the second phase of a Philadelphia trial in which a plaintiff alleges heart valve injury from the use of the diet drug Pondimin, a drug the company once marketed.
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New evidence is raising questions about the tests used to prescribe the breast cancer drug Herceptin, which was initially seen as a model for tailored medicine.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Antidepressant drugmakers such as Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Wyeth will have to disclose trial results suggesting a higher risk of suicide among children and teenagers taking the pills, US regulators said.
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NEW YORK, Jan 10  - Wyeth on Monday said it will  support changes in a nationwide legal settlement with users of  its "fen-phen" diet drugs, speeding up compensation to as many  as 40,000 people who say they were harmed by the recalled  medicines.
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A New Jersey jury said on Tuesday that it has reached a verdict in a trial in which Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG is accused of misrepresenting the bowel disease risks associated with its potent and controversial acne medicine Accutane.
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A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages Wednesday to a woman who received HIV treatments for almost nine years before discovering she never actually had the virus that causes AIDS.
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NEW YORK  - In women who've been treated  for breast cancer, use of the drug tamoxifen can help prevent  recurrence of the disease. Now, new research indicates that the  drug works equally well in black and white women.