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111809P.pdf 07/26/2012 Pamela Kuhn v. Wyeth, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-1809
and No: 11-1815
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Hot Springs
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Loken and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Products liability. In action alleging plaintiffs developed
breast cancer as a result of taking Prempro, a hormone therapy drug
manufactured by defendant, the district court erred in granting
defendant's motion to preclude plaintiffs' expert's testimony regarding
the relation between short-term use of the drug and the risk of cancer; the
testimony was admissible because the studies the expert relied on were
sufficient to support his opinion that short-term use of the drug increases
the risk of breast cancer; grant of defendant's motion for summary
judgment reversed and case remanded for further proceedings. Judge
Loken, dissenting.