Posts tagged wyeth

• Wyeth Documents Confirm Failure to Accept Corporate Responsibility for More than 30 Years

  Brenda Fulmer | December 16, 2009 1:46 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The court has now released documents produced in the Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) litigation. Wyeth had aggressively resisted the release of these documents in the past. The documents are...

• Wyeth Must Pay for Practicing to Deceive

  John Hopkins | November 23, 2009 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Cases involving lawsuits against Wyeth (a division of Pfizer) are going to trial and juries are being permitted to hear all the evidence against Wyeth. The evidence is clear: Wyeth acted in a way...

• Fighting the Good Fight -- Hormone Replacement Therapy Litigation

  John Hopkins | November 23, 2009 9:53 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  They weighed profits against safety and profits won out. Women across the country lost and were forced to suffer with breast cancer. That is the conduct attached to Wyeth for their handling of...

• Pfizer Bigger and More Profitable--Victims Wait for Justice

  Brenda Fulmer | October 15, 2009 9:17 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Pfizer’s $68 billion merger with Wyeth should be completed on October 15, 2009, following recent approval by the Federal Trade Commission. The merger was approved by the European Union in July...

• Published Medical Journal Articles Concerning HRT Revealed to Be “Ghostwritten”

  Jim Clark | August 20, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Recently disclosed court documents reveal that Wyeth, the pharmaceutical giant behind hormone replacement medications Premarin and Prempro, has played a “major role” in 26 scientific...

• FDA will not protect tobacco companies from tort liability

  Brenda Fulmer | June 30, 2009 3:03 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed legislation that will empower the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco products. The law will allow the FDA to require that warning labels...

• Altria, Medtronic & Wyeth: Decisions that Concern Sales over Safety and Profits over People

  Armand Rossetti | March 06, 2009 3:02 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  On March 5, 2009 Representative Bruce Braley (D-IA) sent a letter to congress indicating that he was proud to be a cosponsor of the “Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 (MSDA). On March 4, 2009,...

• Is the Duragesic transdermal patch recall worrisome? How about the possibility of an ultra hazardous mini-pain pump malfunction?

  Armand Rossetti | March 04, 2009 3:08 PM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Due to a Duragesic transdermal patch fold over defect, ALZA Corporation has been in the news lately. A recent FDA recall involved several lots of Duragesic with an expiration date in December 2009....

• Women’s Health Initiative Study – 2002 – A 2009 Supplemental Report

  Brenda Fulmer | February 18, 2009 11:43 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A long-awaited supplemental report was published in early February of 2009, from the authors of the heralded Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Study. The WHI Study, published in July of 2002,...

• Problems Abound for Brand-Name Drug Manufacturers; They May Now Be Liable for Injuries Due to Competitors’ Generic Versions of the Same Drug

  Armand Rossetti | November 10, 2008 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  On November 7, 2008 San Francisco’s 1st District Court of Appeal ruled that original brand name drug makers can now be held liable for injuries that competing generic drug companies cause when...