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Article: INTERNEURON SUES AHP IN REDUX DISPUTE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2000
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Interneuron Pharmaceuticals Inc., developer of the controversial
diet drug Redux that was pulled off the market in September 1997,
yesterday sued its marketing and distribution partner American Home
Products for fraud, misrepresentation, and breach of contract.
The lawsuit, filed in Middlesex Superior Court, spotlights the
simmering schism between the two companies that followed the highly
publicized removal and lawsuits surrounding Redux, the first diet
drug to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in a dozen
years. American Home Products also stopped production of Pondimin, or
fenfluramine, an older, related obesity drug, and was hit with a
nationwide class-action lawsuit by ...