Prempro Drug Trial In Second Day of Deliberations

No verdict after a second full day of jury deliberations Wednesday in a Benton woman’s lawsuit alleging that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals’ hormone drugs caused her breast cancer.

U. S. District Judge Bill Wilson Jr. ordered jurors to return at 9 a. m. today to the federal courts building in Little Rock to resume deliberations.

Jurors are asked do decide if the hormone drugs Premarin and Prempro were safely made and adequately labeled at the time Linda Reeves took them from 1992 to 2000 to prevent osteoporosis and alleviate vaginal dryness.

Reeves’ case is the first of several bellwether cases across the country to go to a jury. There are roughly 5,000 similar cases pending against Wyeth across the country.