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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. 1978), where a hypertensive patient was injured after being injected with the defendant’s drug – despite warnings that “expressly directed the doctor administering the drug to refrain from giving it to a patient with hypertension.” Wyeth Pharmaceuticals , 526 F.3d

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , Wyeth Pharmaceuticals , 526 F.3d Janssen Pharmaceuticals , 2018 WL 1977258, at *12 (Mag. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. , Schering Corp. ,