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Wyeth fights merger of Prempro lawsuits

...wants a court to reverse a decision consolidating lawsuits by Florida women who are demanding company-paid monitoring for complications linked to the hormone-replacement drug Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Lawrence Schwartz approved the class action last month covering an estimated 300,000 Floridians who took Wyeth decided to appeal before a 30-day stay of his order expired.

A Florida lawsuit was one of the first to be filed after the 2002 release of the critical Women's Health Initiative study and is the first nationally to get class-action clearance among about 20 lawsuits seeking it.

The study, cut short because of its startling findings, said Medical researchers concluded the following year that hormone replacement pills should not be taken for any reason other than as brief treatment to help women through the worst symptoms of menopause.

Wyeth is challenging the validity and the results of the 2002 study and maintains the study does not support the women's request for diagnostic work ranging from periodic physical examinations and biopsies to MRI and CT scans.

"No one has recommended special medical screening for Read more...

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