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She is seeking in excess of $75,000 in damages.

About 3,600 lawsuits nationwide have been filed against Wyeth, Pfizer and other makers of hormone replacement drugs.

The bulk of the lawsuits have been consolidated, by multidistrict litigation, before U.S.

District Judge William Wilson Jr., in Little Rock, Ark.

That's the case with Lamar's lawsuit, and the judge some time ago issued a gag order against attorneys speaking publicly about the cases, said Lamar's attorney, R.

Deryl Edwards Jr., of Joplin, Mo., The first hormone replacement therapy lawsuit could get under way next summer in federal court, according to Drug Injury Watch, a Web site sponsored by plaintiff's attorney Thomas Lamb, of Wilmington, N.C.

"Through a massive and decades-long marketing and advertising campaign, Wyeth convinced doctors and the public that menopause is a disease requiring drug treatment rather than the natural process of aging," according to Lamar's lawsuit.

By the mid-1970s, more than 30 million prescriptions for Premarin were being written annually, making the estrogen product the fifth most prescribed drug in the United States, according to the lawsuit.

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