by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 27, 2009 | Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
Connie Barton, an Illinois woman who developed breast cancer after taking Prempro for menopausal symptoms, was awarded punitive damages by a jury in Philadelphia yesterday. The jury has already awarded her $3.7 million in compensatory damages, back in September, but...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 26, 2009 | Law/Legal, Newspapers, Pharmaceutical
The popular birth control pill, Yaz is in the news again. Readers may remember that last autumn, Bayer (the maker of Yaz) was sanctioned by the FDA for their television commercials, “because they encourage use of Yaz in circumstances other than those in which...