Thursday, October 05, 2006

Jury finds for plaintiff in Prempro trial

Philadelphia Jury Finds for Plaintiff in First Prempro Hormone Replacement Case in State Court
Wednesday October 4, 6:56 pm ET


Case Will Proceed to Second Phase Exploring Whether Wyeth Adequately Warned Users About the Drug's Risk

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- In the first state court case, the jury today found that plaintiff's use of Wyeth's hormone therapy Prempro was a cause of her breast cancer and awarded Jennie Nelson, age 66, $1.5 million in compensatory damages. The case will continue to a second, or liability, phase following today's jury decision in Jennie Nelson v. Wyeth, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Read the full article here.... and another one can be found here

What I find particularly repulsive is Wyeth's continued denial that they are causing cancer in people who are taking their drugs and this is just so typical of pharmaceutical companies. When will this country wake up and realize we have been sold down the river by our own doctors who are nothing more than front men and women for drug companies? Our doctors DON'T know enough about the drugs they prescribe and they are basically experimenting on us! They also don't "manage" patients and understand how drugs interact.

As a patient YOU have to be your own doctor and be informed. If you choose to rely only on your doctor today, you will suffer the health consequences of being so lazy.

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