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... 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 fe...Read more... 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | All news
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