Cancer Claim Is Dismissed Against Wyeth Hormone Drugs
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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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A jury on Wednesday found that Wyeth's hormone replacement drug Prempro was a cause of a woman's breast cancer and ordered the drug maker to pay her $1 million in compensatory damages.
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US regulators say recent newspaper ads for AstraZeneca&#39;s Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering drug, are false or misleading. An unusual letter from the Food and Drug Administration, sent Wednesday, dismissed as
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The Wyeth drug Rapamune dramatically reduces rare growths known as angiomyolipomas after one year of treatment, but the benefits begin to fade if the transplant drug is discontinued, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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U.S. health regulators on Wednesday  approved Wyeth&#39;s drug Torisel for patients with an advanced  form of kidney cancer called renal cell carcinoma, saying it  significantly helped them live longer.
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BITTER PILL: Federal officials say research was flawed in two major Wayne State University studies showing oral contraceptives cut the risk of heart disease and carried no increased risk of breast cancer -- results contrary to many previous findings.
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Drugmaker Wyeth  has reached a tentative framework with a group of plaintiffs' lawyers to settle nearly all remaining liability cases stemming from allegations that some of its diet drugs damaged heart valves, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the negotiations.
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Wyeth 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 federal government yesterday canceled a $100 million study designed to test a new generation of drugs to prevent breast cancer in women at risk for the disease.
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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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SAN ANTONIO -- The millions of women who quit taking menopause hormones after a big federal study found that the pills raised the risk of breast cancer now have more reason to be glad they stopped.
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A Philadelphia jury found on Tuesday that Wyeth's hormone replacement therapy Prempro was a cause of a woman's breast cancer and awarded her and her husband damages of $3 million, the drugmaker said.
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By Thomas Ginsberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Dec. 19--Wyeth Pharmaceuticals said today that the FDA has agreed to conduct a fast-track review of the company's new kidney cancer-fighting drug, Torisel.
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Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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A panel is examining claims that GlaxoSmithKline tried to suppress a doctorâs criticism of its drug Avandia.
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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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Its unique compound to fight the growth of cancer cells fails in trials.