Pfizer’s Prempro Didn’t Cause Woman’s Cancer, Jury Concludes

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Pfizer Inc.’s Prempro menopause drug wasn’t the cause of a West Virginia woman’s breast cancer, a jury ruled today in rejecting her claim for damages.

Jurors in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, found that hormone therapy medicines made by Pfizer’s Wyeth and Upjohn units weren’t a cause in the development of Leah Royce Hines’s breast cancer.