{"id":424181,"date":"2011-05-15T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T10:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/15\/pfizer-sets-aside-772m-to-settle-claims-over-drug-illness\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T10:26:58","slug":"pfizer-sets-aside-772m-to-settle-claims-over-drug-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/15\/pfizer-sets-aside-772m-to-settle-claims-over-drug-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer sets aside $772m to settle claims over drug illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"59.1271929825\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/africa-international\/\" title=\"View all posts in Africa\/International\" rel=\"category tag\">Africa\/International<\/a> \u00bb Pfizer sets aside $772m to settle claims over drug illness<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:10 AM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pfizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3848\" title=\"pfizer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pfizer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>The drugs giant Pfizer has put aside $772m (\u00a3476m) to resolve claims its hormone replacement drugs cause serious illness.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer, which is the world\u2019s largest drugmaker, said the money provides \u201cthe minimum expected costs to resolve all of the other outstanding\u201d lawsuits over the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not say how many cases would be settled.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer has already settled a third of claims relating to the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>At the height of the litigation, the company faced more than 10,000 claims.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the claims were inherited along with Pfizer\u2019s 2009 takeover of Wyeth, which makes the menopause treatment drug Prempro.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002 a study linked the drug with breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>More than six million women took Prempro and related menopause drugs to treat symptoms including hot flushes and mood swings.<\/p>\n<p>Wyeth has won dismissals of more than 3,000 cases before they came to be tried.<br \/>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>| | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Currently%20reading%20http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/05\/15\/pfizer-sets-aside-772m-to-settle-claims-over-drug-illness\/\" title=\"Click to send this page to Twitter!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet This!<\/a> | <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/05\/15\/pfizer-sets-aside-772m-to-settle-claims-over-drug-illness\/\" title=\"Pfizer sets aside $772m to settle claims over drug illness\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pfizer sets aside $772m to settle claims over drug illness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb Africa\/International \u00bb Pfizer sets aside $772m to settle claims over drug illness Page last updated at Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:10 AM \/\/ The drugs giant Pfizer has put aside $772m (\u00a3476m) to resolve claims its hormone replacement drugs cause serious illness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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