Comments on: Wyeth Loses Diet Pill Lawsuit Over Lung Ailment http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/10/wyeth-loses-diet-pill-lawsuit-over-lung-ailment/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:04:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: John http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/10/wyeth-loses-diet-pill-lawsuit-over-lung-ailment/#comment-378969 John Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:45:20 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=16856#comment-378969 What the drug did is take my wife. I watch her everyday suffering from pulmonary hypertension. She can't cry or laugh because she can't get enough air even on oxygen all the time. She must take $5000 a month in medication. We have 2 daughters and 7 grand children who see her suffer every day.Now they want to push for preemption. The single drug is killing my wife. She was the best thing in our life now she is dying. The drug company should only have to pay for the people who really have suffered. The people who submit false papers to gain from the drug companies should go to jail. What the drug did is take my wife. I watch her everyday suffering from pulmonary hypertension. She can’t cry or laugh because she can’t get enough air even on oxygen all the time. She must take $5000 a month in medication. We have 2 daughters and 7 grand children who see her suffer every day.Now they want to push for preemption. The single drug is killing my wife. She was the best thing in our life now she is dying. The drug company should only have to pay for the people who really have suffered. The people who submit false papers to gain from the drug companies should go to jail.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/10/wyeth-loses-diet-pill-lawsuit-over-lung-ailment/#comment-378968 Nathan Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:36:25 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=16856#comment-378968 By the way, as an addendum, only about 1000-2000 people were seriously injured by fen-phen. That amounts to roughly a $1 billion per major injury. And you wonder why big pharma is pushing preemption.... This single drug nearly killed Wyeth. It's only due to great management and some lucky breaks on new drugs that allowed it to survive at all. I understand your arguements against preemption. But I don't think you (and others) understand the gravity of the situation faced by pharma these days. Our days are numbered unless something significantly breaks in our favor. http://www.fenphencentral.com/ By the way, as an addendum, only about 1000-2000 people were seriously injured by fen-phen. That amounts to roughly a $1 billion per major injury. And you wonder why big pharma is pushing preemption….

This single drug nearly killed Wyeth. It’s only due to great management and some lucky breaks on new drugs that allowed it to survive at all.

I understand your arguements against preemption. But I don’t think you (and others) understand the gravity of the situation faced by pharma these days. Our days are numbered unless something significantly breaks in our favor.
http://www.fenphencentral.com/

]]> By: Nathan http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/10/wyeth-loses-diet-pill-lawsuit-over-lung-ailment/#comment-378955 Nathan Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:15:38 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=16856#comment-378955 Justice in Michigan, Here's a preemption question for you: What did Wyeth do wrong to deserve paying out $20 BILLION in liability over the last 11 years? Were any laws broken? Did Wyeth deserve what it got? To my knowledge, no one has proven any sort of a coverup. No criminal liability has been found. Yet it has had to make $20 billion in payouts. Should preemption have played a role? Justice in Michigan,
Here’s a preemption question for you: What did Wyeth do wrong to deserve paying out $20 BILLION in liability over the last 11 years? Were any laws broken? Did Wyeth deserve what it got? To my knowledge, no one has proven any sort of a coverup. No criminal liability has been found. Yet it has had to make $20 billion in payouts. Should preemption have played a role?

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