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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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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A 68-year-old woman who uses cannabis to relieve pain is found guilty of growing and possessing the drug.
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A New Jersey jury found on Monday that Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and awarded him $20 million in compensatory damages.
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Wyeth, the largest maker of hormone-replacement medicines used during menopause, won dismissal of a lawsuit in Minnesota linking its Premarin and Prempro drugs to breast cancer.
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The chemical compound in the  abortion pill RU-486 blocked formation in mice of breast tumors  caused by a mutant gene blamed in many women's breast and  ovarian cancers, researchers found.
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US District Judge Patti B. Saris ruled against pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca PLC , Schering-Plough Corp. , and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in Boston yesterday, finding them guilty of engaging in unfair and deceptive trade practices for their medication prices, according to the law firm of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP.
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A Pennsylvania jury awarded $3 million to an Ohio woman who claimed a hormone replacement drug had caused her breast cancer.
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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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THE REPORT: Doctors are reporting that a new breast cancer drug, Arimidex, and others in its class outperform the tried-and-true tamoxifen at preventing recurrence in older women.
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Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over age 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen.
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Two Philadelphia juries on Wednesday awarded damages to four out of five plaintiffs who argued that Wyeth's  weight-loss drug used as part of the fen-phen combination caused heart-valve damage, the company said.
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THE QUESTION: Tamoxifen is commonly taken by women with breast cancer to prevent its recurrence and by women at high risk for the disease.
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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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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 Los Angeles jury on Friday cleared a celebrity dermatologist and Botox-maker Allergan 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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A new type of breast cancer drug is superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in older women and should now be the first drug used to treat the cancer, U.S. and British researchers said on Wednesday.