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(PRN) First US Trial in Hormone Replacement Therapy Lawsuits ...

...After the WHI study came out, Weisbrod said, "Wyeth is now engaged in a major marketing campaign with TV ads touting 'Go low with Women should know that for years Wyeth marketed this as a drug doctors should get women on and keep them on for life without ever doing any long-term testing which would have shown the high breast cancer risk for long-term use." In addition, Weisbrod says, "It is now clear that Wyeth marketed this drug as having a heart protective benefit when it did not.

Moreover, the FDA had not approved On February 25, 1991, one FDA letter to Wyeth included the following language: "We view this campaign in is entirety to be a form of extremely insidious hidden persuasion." Although the HRT lawsuits have not gotten as much attention as the Vioxx lawsuits, this drug actually may effect more consumers.

The fact that Judge Wilson chose to preside at two of the HRT lawsuits originating within his district is part of a trend in which federal jurists chosen to handle Multi-District Litigation (MDL) take on a ...

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