Sanofi-Aventis and Sandoz defeated lawsuits by breast cancer patients who didn’t show that a warning about permanent hair loss would have changed their doctors’ decisions to prescribe Taxotere or a generic equivalent, under rulings from the Fifth Circuit and a Louisiana federal trial court.
Taxotere maker
Her oncologist testified that an additional warning regarding permanent hair loss hasn’t altered his risk-benefit assessment of Taxotere and wouldn’t have changed his decision to use the drug to treat ...