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Bristol Meyers-Squibb And Others Can’t Dodge $1 Billion Lawsuit Over 1940s Syphilis Study, Judge Rules
For the time being, pharmaceutical company Bristol Meyers-Squibb and others will not be allowed to avoid a billion-dollar civil lawsuit over their alleged roles in a U.S. government-led study in the 1940s that deliberately and secretly infected Guatemalan people with syphilis. Last week, Reuters reported, a federal Maryland judge struck down an argument by defence…