A Texas appeals court has ruled that Wyeth must face a lawsuit by a woman who claims her breast cancer was caused by the hormone replacement drug Prempro, according to a Bloomberg article. The appeals court cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wyeth v. Levine rejecting Big Pharma’s argument that FDA approval barred lawsuits by people injured by prescription drugs.
Wyeth is defending about 5,000 lawsuits over its menopause drugs Prempro and Premarin. As many as 6 million women took the hormone-replacement therapies to ease menopause symptoms, such as hot flashes and mood swings, before a 2002 study showed a link to cancer.
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