Monday, August 28, 2006

Prempro Trial: Drug Memo Evidence May Hurt Defense

From the trial currently going forward in Arkansas:

Wyeth researchers in 1983 told of studies focusing on the breast-cancer risks associated with what became the company's Prempro hormone-replacement drug may come back to haunt the drugmaker says a Memo introduced at a trail on the drug.

The FDA's requested Prempro review ``would be very costly and would take many years,'' researchers said in the memo. ``In fact, the result of the studies might prove to be embarrassing.''

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