Nationwide Cases - Prempro

Nationwide actions involving prescription drugs, dietary supplements, over-the-counter medications and other defective pharmaceutical products can be complex, costly and time consuming. The Alvarez Law Firm has the resources and experience to successfully litigate such cases.

If you or someone you know has suffered as the result of a defective and harmful pharmaceutical product, or to learn more about pending cases and see if you qualify as a plaintiff, contact us today.

Our firm is actively investigating and engaged in current lawsuits against the manufacturers of some of the following pharmaceutical products:

Prempro

Wyeth, Incorporated, formerly known as American Home Products, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, formerly known as Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., are the manufacturers of the prescription hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug Prempro (conjugated estrogens/medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets).

The drug was designed to treat menopausal symptoms including hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness. There was an initial belief that Hormone Replacement Therapy could also reduce a woman's risk of osteoporosis and heart complications. On July 9th, 2002, the National Institute of Health stopped a major clinical study involving Prempro because preliminary data showed that long-term use of estrogen and progestin significantly increased a woman's risk of developing invasive breast cancer, blood clots, and heart attacks.

The findings show that use of hormone replacement therapy after only one year increased an otherwise healthy woman's risk of a heart attack by 29%, breast cancer by 24%, stroke by 41% and blood clots by 200%.

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