Wood v. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Division of American Home Products

GRAVES, Justice.

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In 1973, the United States Federal Food and Drug Administration approved the use and sale of fenfluramine, an appetite suppressing diet medication. The drug was tested, manufactured, and packaged by A.H. Robins and sold by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, under the trade name Pondi-min. Appellees, American Home Products Corporation (hereinafter referred to collectively as “AHPC”), of which Wyeth-Ayerst is a division, also marketed another FDA-approved medication for obesity containing fenfluramine, called Redux. Demand for fenfluramine soared during the mid-1990’s, when people…