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LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A federal jury ruled for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals on Thursday in the latest lawsuit claiming that the company's hormone replacement drugs cause breast cancer.After deliberating for more than a day, a jury in Little Rock sided with Wyeth in a case filed by Helene Rush of Little Rock.In her lawsuit, Rush accused the drug maker of negligence in its hormone replacement therapy. More than 5,000 similar suits have been filed across the country.Rush, 72, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. Her attorneys say she took Wyeth's estrogen-progestin hormone therapy for nearly a decade.Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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