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Maryland Woman Thankful for Wyeth Verdicts
Published in Cancer Weekly, December 8th, 2009
"They heard the facts and made the just choice. I am so thankful to them," she said of Monday's verdicts totaling $103 million in damages against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
Wisneski is among 12,000 women nationwide who have sued Wyeth and Pfizer pharmaceuticals, makers of the hormone therapy drugs Premarin and Prempro. Wisneski and the other victims of hormone therapy have alleged in lawsuits that Wyeth and Pfizer inappropriately promoted spurious benefits of the drugs, failed to do studies to establish that the drug...
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