Court awards over $13M in drug lawsuit launched by Sechelt woman

Cross-posted from The Coast Reporter » By CHRISTINE WOOD CANADA — The class action lawsuit launched by a Sechelt woman against Wyeth Canada Inc. for selling hormone replacement therapy drugs linked to breast cancer is now settled and a $13.65 million payment has been awarded by the B.C. Supreme Court. A large portion of that…

Change.org petition asks Pfizer to develop drugs without the horse urine

A very special Petition is taking off at Change.org and we are asking you right now to sign it. The Petition entitled Take horse urine out of hormone medication states: "The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer makes about a $1 billion a year by abusing pregnant horses for their urine. Conjugated equine estrogen (CEE) is used in…

The Quest for a Generic Premarin – A Bitter Pill to Swallow

BY JANE ALLIN The story of the quest for a generic Premarin is an interesting one – one that dates back to the mid 1980’s when the FDA announced that Premarin was effective in combating the bone loss associated with osteoporosis. To this day an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic version has…