| They reflected on recent decisions in regard to asbestos, lung disease, toxic shock syndrome, Agent Orange, lead, tobacco, and fen-phen, the slimming pill. |
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| In Trenton, New Jersey, jury selection began this week in a test case involving thousands of healthy fen-phen users. |
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| All were women, most of them in their thirties and forties, who had been taking fen-phen. |
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| Mealey said the new report was developed in response the implementation of Rule 23 and its use in mass tort litigation such as asbestos, breast implants, fen-phen and tobacco. |
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| Fen-phen was found to cause heart damage in 90 per cent of adults who used it regularly to lose weight. |
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