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Prempro Side Effects – Breast Cancer, Heart Attacks & Strokes

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Prempro Side Effects – Breast Cancer, Heart Attacks & Strokes

Despite information about serious side effects that have been available for more than 3 years, Pempro, Wyeth’s hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug, is still a top-selling drug. Prempro combines estrogen and progesterone to treat the effects of menopause.

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Life-threatening Prempro side effects include and increased risk of:

Breast cancer
Ovarian cancer
Gallbladder cancer
Strokes
Blood clots
Pulmonary embolisms

Other serious Prempro side effects include:
Severe asthma
Lupus
Scleroderma

If you are currently using Prempro, you should consult your health care provider about the likelihood of deadly side effects. If you have been injured from taking Prempro, you might be able to make a claim for damages. See Prempro Attorney and Lawyer – How to Hire to find out how to find a qualified Prempro lawyer to evaluate your case.

Check out the following articles for more information about Prempro, filing a Prempro lawsuit and finding a Prempro attorney:

For more information about Prempro, see Drug Overview: Prempro Side Effects and Claims
To find out more about the FDA warning, see Prempro Side Effects and Risks
For more information about Prempro updates, see Prempro Information and Warnings
If you would like to learn more about Prempro lawsuits, see Prempro Lawsuits, Litigation & Lawyers
To learn more about Prempro attorneys and how to find one, see Hiring a Prempro Attorney and Lawyer

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Drug Overview: Prempro Side Effects and Claims

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Drug Overview: Prempro Side Effects and Claims

Prempro, manufactured by Wyeth, is the best-selling hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug on the market. This combination of estrogen and progesterone is used to treat hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause. The Prempro claim was that there was less likely to cause side effects like breast cancer than treatment with estrogen alone. Prempro was approved by the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) in November 1995.View All Prempro Articles

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The FDA has required a black box warning on Prempro since 2003 that postmenopausal women who use Prempro have an increased risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke, invasive breast cancer, pulmonary emboli, and deep vein thrombosis. A study on HRT medication has shown such serious results for the participants that the study was cancelled to protect the health of the women participating in the study. See Drug Warnings: Prempro Side Effects for the details of the study and further information on the safety of Prempro.
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For more information about Prempro side effects, see Prempro Side Effects, Breast Cancer, Heart Attacks & Strokes
To find out more about the FDA warning, see Prempro Side Effects and Risks
For more information about Prempro updates, see Prempro Information and Warnings
If you would like to learn more about Prempro lawsuits, see Prempro Lawsuits, Litigation & Lawyers
To learn more about Prempro attorneys and how to find one, see Hiring a Prempro Attorney and Lawyer
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Prempro: The Number of Victims Is Staggering

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Prempro: The Number of Victims Is Staggering

Wyeth Pharmaceutical’s Prempro is a combination therapy of progesterone and estrogen replacement drugs. Generally referred to as hormone replacement therapy, the drug has been linked to increased rates of breast cancer. According to experts, the number of potential victims is staggering.View All Prempro Articles

Over 100,000 potential victims in the US alone
According to Bryan Aylstock, a Florida attorney whose firm protects the rights of consumers who are seriously injured due to defective drugs such as Prempro, the potential victims of this combination therapy are staggering. Here’s what he told us in a recent interview:
It’s probably in excess of 100,000 victims in this country alone that have been causally diagnosed with breast cancer related to their hormone replacement therapy. Now, there are not that many people who have consulted lawyers. The number of filed cases is in the order of 5,000 at this point. So, there’s a large population of people out there who still probably don’t know that their use of this combination hormone replacement therapy could have caused their breast cancer. I think it’s important for them to know that fact.
When did the risk become known?
The risk of breast cancer had been known for quite some time, according to Aylstock. He continued, “The issue with these hormone replacement combo therapy drugs is the risk of breast cancer, which was known by the drug companies for a long time before it became known to the general public. That has come out through internal documents that have been now made public in the various trials that have occurred involving these drugs.”
“The general public, and the physicians who were prescribing this combo therapy, really had no way to know of the increased risk of breast cancer, particularly with these combination therapies, until the World Health Initiative (WHI) actually stopped a study that it was doing on these drugs in 2002. It was an unusual step for them to discontinue the study midstream, but they did it because they were seeing alarming rates of breast cancer in the exposed group of these combination hormone replacement drugs.”
No Warnings Issued
Despite the known link between combination therapy drugs and breast cancer, little has been done to warn women about the risks of use. Aylstock told us:
Prior to the World Health Initiative, there was really no warning in the product labeling, and certainly not in the warning section, about the risk of breast cancer. Following the World Health Initiative, there was a series of updated warnings and “Dear doctor” letters that the drug companies began to put on the label, frankly, because they had to as the information had become public.
So, they have begun to warn about the danger, which is why the use of this combination therapy has fallen off so dramatically – and why the breast cancer rates in this country have declined. A lot of people have been saved from that disease because of the World Health Initiative study.
Attorney Aylstock encourages women who took this combination therapy to make sure that they’re checked regularly for breast cancer. He says that if they develop breast cancer, it’s wise to speak with an attorney about their legal rights and what they can do to hold the drug companies accountable for what they did in conjunction with this product.
If you or a loved one has been injured due to the use of Prempro, contact an attorney to discuss your situation. The consultation is free, without obligation and strictly confidential. To contact a qualified attorney whose practice focuses in this area of the law, please click here.
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Prempro Injuries: How an Attorney Can Help

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Prempro Injuries: How an Attorney Can Help

Thousands of women have been injured or died after using Prempro, the combination therapy drug marketed by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals that has been linked to breast cancer. Deciding whether to initiate an action against the company, while strictly an individual decision, is an area where a qualified attorney can truly help.View All Prempro Articles

Important factors to consider
There are several important factors to consider when deciding whether to bring a lawsuit. In a recent interview, Bryan Aylstock, a Florida attorney whose firm protects the rights of consumers who are seriously injured due to defective drugs such as Prempro, explained what a potential plaintiff should consider.
Statute of limitations. There are statute of limitations issues and every day that someone waits to contact an attorney may be the last day that they had to bring their lawsuit. So, there’s a very good reason for them to do it quickly. If someone has taken these combination hormone replacement drugs and developed breast cancer, it’s imperative that they call an attorney immediately.
Discovery rule. Most states have what’s called the Discovery Rule with regard to their statute of limitations. That provides a period of time for an individual to discover the causal connection between their disease and what caused it. For example, if it took a reasonable person three or four years to be diagnosed and make the connection between their diagnosis of breast cancer and their use of hormone replacement drugs, that period of time would be added to the statute of limitations. So, generally speaking, the statute of limitations is certainly a defense that Wyeth raises, but it’s one that we think we can overcome given their continued denials of the causal connection.
Public policy. Public policy dictates that drug companies who hurt people, and are at fault for it, should be held accountable. Our FDA [Food and Drug Administration] is not equipped to hold drug companies accountable for their wrongful actions. If folks don’t stand up for themselves, and the lawyers representing those folks don’t stand up for them, nobody’s going to be watching these drug companies to make sure they are held accountable.
Contacting an attorney
Consulting with an attorney doesn’t necessarily mean filing a lawsuit, according to Aylstock, who told us, “Anyone can absolutely contact me and there’s no cost or fee to do so. We would certainly do what we could to assist anybody who called and help them through the process. With most attorneys in this arena, it’s understood that people don’t have money to pay us by the hour, so we engage in contingency-fee contracts which provide that only if we are able to make a recovery do the people that we represent have to pay us.”
If you or a loved one has been injured due to the use of Prempro, contact an attorney to discuss your situation. The consultation is free, without obligation and strictly confidential. To contact a qualified attorney whose practice focuses in this area of the law, please click here.
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Prempro Litigation: Thousands of Lawsuits Already Filed

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Prempro Litigation: Thousands of Lawsuits Already Filed

Thousands of lawsuits have already been filed over Prempro use, according to Bryan Aylstock, a Florida attorney whose firm protects the rights of consumers who are seriously injured due to defective drugs such as Prempro. In a recent interview, Aylstock explained what the drugs manufacturer is claiming as a defense and how lawyers prove these cases.View All Prempro Articles

Prempro litigation and preemption
Prempro is a hormone replacement therapy marketed by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. It is a combination therapy of the estrogen and progesterone replacement drugs that has been linked to increased rates of breast cancer. Wyeth claims that victims of Prempro use are preempted from bringing lawsuits against the company because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had to approve the drug. However, Aylstock says that preemption may not be the proper term. He explained:
I think that preemption is probably a confusing word. I think the word that more accurately describes what the drug companies are trying to achieve is immunization. They would like to be completely immunized from any liability regarding their drugs, regardless of whether they lied to the FDA, regardless of whether they made misrepresentations to doctors and what they knew and when they knew it.
As most people know by now, the FDA is an under-funded and under-staffed organization that usually gets all of its information directly from the drug companies. If the FDA approves a drug, drug manufacturers want to be immunized from any liability no matter what the facts are and no matter whom they hurt in the process. The Supreme Court of the United States has recently taken up a case involving Wyeth and another drug that Wyeth makes and will determine if the FDA approval of that drug preempts any state court causes of action.
While Wyeth may claim preemption as a defense, that defense isn’t always recognized, according to Aylstock, who said, “Thus far, only a handful of these have been tried. However, now that internal documents [such as the Women’s Health Initiative study] have become public, we’ve been able to show juries the evidence – which has resulted in multi-million dollar verdicts. In fact, the last trial resulted in an award of over $100 million.”
Using experts to prove cases
Along with the internal documents that have surfaced to help attorneys prove clients’ cases, Aylstock also uses a variety of experts. He explained, “We use epidemiologists who can speak to the studies and the strength of the studies and demonstrate the causal link between the hormone replacement therapy and cancer, to oncologists who can speak about the cancer itself.”
“We also use pathologists who can speak about the tissue and diagnosis of a hormone-receptive breast cancer and determine what happened in that individual when the hormone replacement was discontinued. They can tell us whether the rate of cancer growth slowed. If it did, that’s a pretty good indication that it was the drugs that were causing the growth of the cancer itself. We also use economists and family doctors who can speak to the effect that the cancer has had not only on the individual, but on the family as well.”
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New or old laws?

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New or old laws?

While new laws are constantly being debated to regulate computers and computing activities, these laws are not being created in a vacuum. Basic legal principles – derived from established common, statutory and case law authority – and common sense– all help form the basis of the law in this field. Current law is used to resolve controversies whenever there is no specific law with respect to a disputed computer or computer related activity; and many of the “new” disputes are just repeats of patterns seen before (forgery existed before either digital photo morphing or “identity theft”). New laws are created either when a problem appears to need a general solution that isn’t as easily provided by (relatively) sparse judicial decisions, or when businesses and the public will benefit from knowing what the “rules of the road” will be beforehand, so they can predict the effects of their actions. The pace of change is increasing in the law, just as in all other areas where computers are involved — perhaps because even the lawyers and judges are beginning to find how valuable the computering “tool” can be.

With respect to computers and related activities – you can get an old (law) dog to do new tricks – just as long as you can reasonably predict his new behavior when he’s moving at hyperspeed!

Hiring a Prempro Attorney and Lawyer

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Hiring a Prempro Attorney and Lawyer

Have you suffered any of the serious side effects from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after taking Prempro? If so, you may be able to get damages for your injuries. You should begin by having your case evaluated by a Prempro attorney who is experienced in pharmaceutical litigation. A qualified Prempro lawyer will be able to tell you how good a case you have and what kind of damages you might be able to collect. You need to get your case to an attorney as soon as you can, because each state has a limit on the amount of time you have to bring such litigation. You need to comply with your state’s statute of limitations, or you will lose your claim.View All Prempro Articles

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If you have a good case your Prempro attorney can guide you through the beginning phases of the litigation, deciding which parties to name as defendants and where to file the lawsuit. After that an experienced Prempro lawyer will be able to handle the special requirements of pharmaceutical litigation and stand up to the high-powered attorneys who represent large pharmaceutical companies. This is not the kind of litigation you should consider handing on your own, since it’s very specialized and your chances of succeeding on your own are very slight. Even if your case is settled before trial, you will almost always get a larger settlement if you are represented by an experienced attorney.
Of course, it isn’t always easy finding an attorney which this kind of specialization. you could try getting recommendations from people you know. If you can’t get a recommendation for a pharmaceutical-litigation specialist, a good place to start looking for one is AttorneyPages.com, where you’ll find listings for drug liability specialists in your area, or post your case to the free Case Evaluation Form. After posting your case, an experienced law firm that handles Prempro and similar cases will contact you for a free case evaluation, without any obligation.
Check out the following articles for more information about Prempro, filing a Prempro lawsuit and finding a Prempro attorney:
For more information about Prempro, see Drug Overview: Prempro Side Effects and Claims
For more information about Prempro side effects, see Prempro Side Effects, Breast Cancer, Heart Attacks & Strokes
To find out more about the FDA warning, see Prempro Side Effects and Risks
For more information about Prempro updates, see Prempro Information and Warnings
If you would like to learn more about Prempro lawsuits, see Prempro Lawsuits, Litigation & Lawyers
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Prempro Lawsuits, Litigation and Lawyers – What You Should Know

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Prempro Lawsuits, Litigation and Lawyers – What You Should Know

Prempro is the top-selling drug for hormone replacement therapy (HRT or HT). Prempro, manufactured by Wyeth, is supposed to help alleviate some of the effects of menopause in postmenopausal women, such as to prevent osteoporosis or loss of bone density. Prempro was the drug used in the 2002 National Institute of Health study. That study concluded the risks of life-threatening Pempro side effects outweighed any benefits.
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After the 2002 study was published in the July 2002 issue of JAMA, the American Medical Association’s journal, hundreds of lawsuits were filed to recover damages for injuries suffered by women who had taken Prempro.

For example, three women in Boston filed Prempro litigation. Two of them have developed blood clots after several years on HRT therapy with Prempro and the third has developed breast cancer. The Prempro attorney for these three women argues that Prempro was unreasonably dangerous for long-term use and that the defendants, including Wyeth, promoted the drug therapy without doing necessary long-term clinical trials to find out if the therapy was safe enough to go on the market.

Prempro lawsuits claim that Wyeth did not do adequate safety testing, and promoted the drug without knowing if it was safe. Wyeth is also accused of withholding information about dangerous side effects from the public, placing the users of Prempro at deadly risk.

At least two Prempro class action lawsuits have been filed, but neither Prempro class action has been successful in getting class action certification. Certification was denied in an Arkansas federal court in 2005 and a suit in Florida state court was denied certification by an appeals court in February 2006. These ruling have no effect on individual Prempro lawsuits. They only mean that individuals who have been damaged have to bring their own lawsuits.

Check out the following articles for more information about Prempro, filing a Prempro lawsuit and finding a Prempro attorney:

For more information about Prempro, see Drug Overview: Prempro Side Effects and Claims
For more information about Prempro side effects, see Prempro Side Effects, Breast Cancer, Heart Attacks & Strokes
To find out more about the FDA warning, see Prempro Side Effects and Risks
For more information about Prempro updates, see Prempro Information and Warnings
To learn more about Prempro attorneys and how to find one, see Hiring a Prempro Attorney and Lawyer

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When, Why, and Why Not, Should You Consider Bankruptcy?

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When, Why, and Why Not, Should You Consider Bankruptcy?

The idea of declaring bankruptcy, wiping out certain debts or repaying them over time with court protection-no more hassles or nasty phone calls from menacing creditors–and then moving on more or less debt free has undeniable appeal to anyone faced with overwhelming debt.
But be careful. Compelling as it may sound, bankruptcy has a lingering and far-reaching impact that touches every aspect of life. Bankruptcy ruins credit, makes it difficult, if not impossible, to keep bank accounts and credit cards, can take some valued, and valuable, possessions, and makes it difficult to get on with necessities of life such as buying or renting a home or car, getting insurance and finding a job.
In fact, most financial advisors look at bankruptcy as a desperate last resort, when budgeting, credit counseling and other efforts to get out of debt have failed, and then only with the advice and guidance of an experienced bankruptcy attorney.
There are two basic types of personal bankruptcy, Chapter 13. Each must be filed in federal bankruptcy court, but certain conditions must be met before filing for bankruptcy under either chapter. The moment you file a bankruptcy case, an immediate automatic restraining order kicks in and gives you protection from the relentless creditor.
You must get credit counseling at your own expense from a government-approved organization (list available at http://www.usdoj.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/ccde/de_approved.htm) within six months before you file and you must satisfy a “means test” to confirm that your income does not exceed a specified amount. That amount differs by state (also available at http://www.usdoj.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/meanstesting.htm).
The world of bankruptcy under the Code was overhauled drastically in late 2005 to encourage people with a steady income to use Chapter 13 instead of Chapter 7. Chapter 13 allows those with a steady income to keep certain property, like a home with a mortgage or a car that might be lost during the bankruptcy process. Under Chapter 13, the court approves a repayment plan where you give up part of your future anticipated income to pay some or all of what you owe, rather than surrendering property. In return, certain debts must be repaid. These include overdue school loans, child support, taxes, car loans, and home mortgage payments and, in some cases, all of your debts.
Chapter 7 allows you to “discharge,” in effect to erase almost all of your debts. A trustee is appointed to collect non-exempt property, sell it, and dole out the proceeds to your creditors. This is not an absolute solution: certain debts, among them past due child and spousal support, may not be excused; you risk losing your property; and, if you had transferred property to avoid the loss, some transfers can be undone. Unlike Chapter 13, there is no filing of a repayment plan with the court
Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 filings are administered by someone known as a trustee. The bankruptcy trustee, appointed by the US Department of Justice, investigates the financial affairs of each debtor, can sell non-exempt assets, and convenes a “meeting of creditors” about a month after a case is filed. Each bankruptcy case is assigned a judge who makes rulings if called upon. Lawyers are not required, but you may want an seasoned bankruptcy lawyer to advise you about when to file and to guide you through the complex, heavy-paperwork process.
Chapter 7 usually takes about three months to complete but the case stays on your credit report for 10 years. Chapter 13 lasts from three to five years, depending on your circumstances, and remains on your credit record for seven years. Before discharge of the case under either chapter, you must receive certification for a completed course in financial management from an approved counseling agency.

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Can expert witnesses be used in custody battles?

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Can expert witnesses be used in custody battles?

Because of their lack of familiarity and formal training in the field, often times judges will put much stock in the testimony and written recommendations of experts in custody disputes. Experts in the field of child psychiatry or psychology or mental health will perform custody evaluations of the family with written conclusions and recommendations to the court based on their observations. The evaluations will cover the activities of each parent, the home life, parenting skills, relationships to the child, and the child’s feelings and preferences. One of two possible outcomes will occur: the recommendation of the professional will be accepted by all parties (judges, lawyers, parents) or everyone goes off to court to let the judge make the decision.