Wyeth said on Monday a jury ruled in favor of the drugmaker in a trial in which three people claimed they had been harmed by using the company's withdrawn diet drug.
In the second diet drug verdict in Philadelphia this month the jury ruled against Lee Ann Brunson, Colleen Rondas and Lonnie Zimmerman. Earlier this month a jury ordered Wyeth to pay damages of $88,000 to Brigitte DeMonja, who claimed she suffered heart valve damage from taking Pondimin.
Wyeth has taken more than $21 billion in charges for legal liabilities related to diet drugs that were pulled from the market in 1997 after they were linked to heart valve damage. Pondimin was part of a drug combination known as "fen-phen."
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