After more than six hours of deliberation, a Philadelphia jury unanimously returned a defense verdict Wednesday in a lawsuit alleging that a hormone replacement therapy drug caused breast cancer in an Indiana woman who died of the disease. The verdict in favor of drugmaker Wyeth came because the jury found a lack of factual causation of Cheryl Foust's disease by her use of the HRT drug Prempro ...

A breast cancer victim who used Prempro has been awarded $9.45 million by a Philadelphia jury in her lawsuit against Pfizer Inc.’s Wyeth unit. About 8,000 people who used Wyeth’s hormone-replacement drugs have filed similar suit against the company. Roughly 1,500 such lawsuits are pending in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Hormone therapy drugs [...]

After an hour of deliberation Friday and four weeks of trial, a Philadelphia jury will continue its work today in a lawsuit over whether drugmaker Wyeth's hormonal drug caused an Alabama plaintiff's breast cancer. An attorney for the plaintiffs alleged during closing arguments that Wyeth was negligent in "experimenting" on "grandmothers" because of its failure to adequately warn doctors and ...

In addition to the wide array of dangerous and, in many cases, life-threatening diseases, linked to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), an emerging study has revealed a link with estrogen-only HRT and asthma, said Reuters. According to the scientists, the risk increase is seen after menopause and the study involved nearly 58,000 women over a 12-year period, [...]

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- A Pfizer Inc. unit persuaded a Pennsylvania state court judge to slash by 93 percent a $75 million punitive-damages award to a woman who blamed the company’s menopause drugs for her breast cancer.

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- A Pfizer Inc. unit persuaded a Pennsylvania state court judge to slash by 93 percent a $75 million punitive-damages award to a woman who blamed the company’s menopause drugs for her breast cancer.

A Pfizer Inc. unit persuaded a Pennsylvania state court judge to slash a $78.7 million damage award to a woman who blamed the company's hormone-replacement drug Prempro for her breast cancer.

The deceased plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging a Wyeth-made hormone replacement therapy drug caused her death from breast cancer has a surviving identical twin who has not had breast cancer. Both the plaintiffs and the defense attorneys sought to leverage to their advantage the fact that Cheryl Foust's twin sister, Carol, was present and in good health in a Philadelphia Common Pleas courtroom ...

In Pennsylvania's first precedent-setting decision regarding mass tort litigation involving hormone replacement therapy, the Superior Court has revived a plaintiff's lawsuit by finding that the plaintiff was entitled to an exception to the two-year statute of limitations because she couldn't have reasonably known of an alleged link between her breast cancer and HRT drugs before the publication ...

More than 100 lawsuits involving Prempro and other hormone replacement therapy drugs have been reinstated, thanks to a ruling by a federal appeals court. On Wednesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 2008 district court ruling that had not only dismissed the Prempro lawsuits in Arkansas federal court, but had prevented [...]