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Hormone Therapy and Prempro: Two Women's Accounts
Clinton Township, MI: Debbie was prescribed Prempro for post-menopausal symptoms and hormone therapy 12 years ago. Her endocrinologist warned her to discontinue taking it "because it causes breast cancer...

Big Award In Pfizer HRT Case
Recently, a breast cancer survivor won her hormone replacement lawsuit against Pfizer. Plaintiff, Donna Kendall asserted that three of Pfizer's hormone replacement drugs contributed to her breast cancer, and a jury in Philadelphia agreed with her...

Premarin and Prempro: Lawsuits
Wyeth has settled lawsuits with two women who developed breast cancers. The drug maker of Premarin and Prempro is facing more than 5,000 lawsuits. Hormone replacement therapy is used to treat symptoms that accompany menopause...

Dangerous Drug Lawsuit: Jury Orders Pfizer to Pay $38.4 Million To Breast Cancer Survivor Who Used Hormone Replacement Drugs
Last month, a jury ruled against Pfizer in the dangerous drug lawsuit filed by a breast cancer survivor who used the hormone replacement drugs Prempro, Premarin, and Provera. The verdict in favor of plaintiff Donna Kendall: $28 million in punitive damages and $6...

Marketing Cited as Potential Cause for Number of Women Suffering from Prempro Cancer
Newburgh, Illinois: A series of court battles related to Wyeth's Prempro HRT have caused much financial woe for the drug maker and its parent company Pfizer. Yet a series of new articles blames misleading advertising for the more than 13,000 claimants seeking damages from the company.

Pfizer Popped With $6.3M Prempro Verdict
A Pennsylvania jury has ruled that two Pfizer Inc. units areliable for at least $6.3 million in compensatory damages to an Illinois woman who developed breast cancer after she began taking the menopause drugs Prempro and Provera...

Prempro Verdict Tossed
A woman who claimed that Wyeth's hormone-replacement drug caused her breast cancer failed to prove, with have sufficient evidence, that Wyeth's Prempro caused her damage. The opinion was written by Judge Ricardo C...

Study: Hormone Use Increases Cancer Risk
From Yahoo News:Taking menopause hormones for five years doubles the risk for breast cancer, according to a new analysis of a big federal study that reveals the most dramatic evidence yet of the dangers of these still-popular pills...

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Risks Ford Cancer, Blood Clots And Cardiac Problems
Women who have Hormone Replacement Therapy (hrt) are more at risk for breast cancer according to the American Cancer Society: Results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have shown that daily use of combined HRT increases a woman's chance of developing breast cancer by about 5% to 6% with each year of use...

Appeals Court Rules Wyeth Must Face Prempro Case Where Woman Claims Prempro Caused Her Breast Cancer.
Bloomberg News (4/21, O'Reilly) reports, "Wyeth, the drugmaker being acquired by Pfizer Inc., must face a lawsuit by a woman who claims her breast cancer was caused by the menopause medicine Prempro [estrogens, conjugated/medroxyprogesterone], a Texas appeals court ruled...

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