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A federal jury in Arkansas has ruled for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in the latest lawsuit claiming that the company's hormone replacement drugs cause breast cancer. After deliberating for more than a day, a jury in Little Rock sided with Wyeth in a case filed by Helene Rush of Little Rock.
In her lawsuit, Rush accused the drug maker of negligence in its hormone replacement therapy. More than 5,000 similar suits have been filed across the country.
Rush, 72, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. Her attorneys say she took Wyeth's estrogen-progestin hormone therapy for nearly a decade.
Lawyers for Wyeth said Rush likely would have developed breast cancer regardless of whether she took Premarin and Prempro because of genetic and health factors, such as weight gain and a history of smoking.
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