Fen-Phen Litigation Against American Home Products… : DASH Story 2016-07-12
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I am pursuing a Masters Degree in Clinical Translation Management at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. In the last spring semester I took a genetics class and the final project was to present a trial in an FDA regulatory case against American Home Products and their drug Fen-Phen. I partnered with a classmate to represent American Home Products in order to defend the company against the FDA's intentions to remove Fen-Phen from the market. I found this article on the web and it was my main source of reference to prepare the case against the classmates who represented the FDA. During my oral arguments in the case trial, most of the information that I gathered and then presented as evidence to defend American Home Products, was taken out of this Harvard Law student article. Two other classmates represented the jury in the trial. What was their verdict? They denied the FDA's request to remove Fen-Phen out of the market and the Genetics professors gave my classmate and I an A for the genetics final project.
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