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Plaintiffs' judgment on Prempro

Unlike Little Rock, a Philadelphia jury has found that Wyeth's hormone replacement drug Prempro caused a woman's breast cancer.

Posted by Max Brantley on October 4, 2006 08:39 PM | Permalink

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I don't think this case will go further. The label on the drug was regulated and approved by the FDA. If the woman and her doctor read the label (their responsibility), they understood the risk. The company is not to blame if the woman fell within the odds. It's like suing a casino for losing an easy throw of the dice. "Easy" doesn't mean risk-free. Any blame (I hesitate to say this) falls on the woman's doctor, who prescribed the medication but failed to guard against the labelled risk by adequate monitoring--he or she being the professional paid by the woman (or her insurance provider) to guard against her putative inability to understand the warning. She should have been screened more agressively against the labelled risk. Or maybe she didn't go to her doctor often enough.

Not the company's fault, this time, as far as I can tell.

Posted by: widj | October 4, 2006 10:05 PM

James Carville once said, "Pennsylvania is Philadelphia surrounded by Alabama." In more than just politics, it would seem.

Posted by: Quapaw | October 5, 2006 08:26 AM

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