Prempro, Estrogen/Progestin News

Several dozen Indiana women are preparing to sue a drug company they claim sold a product it knew could cause breast cancer.

Two Pfizer Inc. units' hormone- replacement therapy drugs caused an Illinois woman's breast cancer, making them liable for at least $6.3 million in damages, a Philadelphia jury ruled today.

Two Illinois women have been awarded damages by a jury in Philadelphia hearing a lawsuit against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

A woman who blames her use of Prempro and Provera for her breast cancer has been awarded $6.3 million in compensatory damages by a Philadelphia jury.

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A Philadelphia jury on Friday ordered pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to pay $6.3 million in compensatory damages to an Illinois breast cancer survivor after finding menopause drugs Premarin, Provera and Prempro caused the disease.

Is Prempro, the hormone drug known to increase the risk of breast cancer, a public hazard? If a judge in Pinellas County determines that it is, hundreds of thousands of documents now under seal in lawsuits against the drug's manufacturer nationwide could be released for the public to inspect.

After reading the criticism of her book on cancer cures, including comments from readers on her story in the Daily Beast, Suzanne Somers takes on her detractors, doctor by doctor.

October was National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we should have been talking about how birth control drugs can double, or triple a woman's risk of developing breast cancer if she is over 40 and has been on a pill, worn a patch or had an injection for five, 10 or 20 years or more.

Effective Jan. 1, UTU members taking certain brand-name drugs will be required to pay more for them unless they switch to generic or preferred versions.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has upheld Arkansas district court decisions in a products liability case against pharmaceutical companies that are the makers of hormone therapy drugs that, combined, have been linked to breast cancer.

Abstract Women outlive men, but life expectancy is not influenced by hormone replacement therapy.

A federal appeals court says Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will get a new trial to determine if the drugmaker should pay punitive damages to a woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy.

After several years of delays, hormone-replacement litigation is moving forward, with one trial completed in Philadelphia and a second under way.

Audiologist Elizabeth Alsgaard spent about $1,000 for saliva tests, hormone creams and custom-compounded hormone pills the doctor prescribed.

A Philadelphia jury awarded punitive damages yesterday in Connie Barton's case over the Prempro hormone replacement therapy marketed by Wyeth.

A Pfizer Inc. unit must pay an undisclosed amount of punitive damages to an Illinois woman who developed breast cancer after taking one of the drugmakera s menopause treatments, a Philadelphia jury said yesterday.

MARYCLAIRE DALE PHILADELPHIA a ' A Philadelphia jury is weighing punitive damages against drugmaker Wyeth after finding a link between an Illinois woman's breast cancer and the hormone-replacement drug she took.

"Pfizer Unit Must Pay Prempro Damages, Jury Concludes": Bloomberg News has a report that begins, "A Pfizer Inc.

What to do if menopause makes you miserable? Start with a visit to your doctor. If you don't have one you really trust, fix that problem before you try to tackle the rest, women's health experts recommend.