OPPT NEWSBREAK                  Tuesday, 6 May 1997
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          "American Home Products Sued Concerning Diet Drug."  Wall Street
          Journal, 6 May 97, B10.
               Two drug makers have been sued by the family of a
               30-year-old woman who died after taking the "popular
               phen-fen diet drug combination" for 10 days.  The suit names
               divisions of American Home Products Corp., maker of
               fenfluramine, and Medeva PLC, which sells phentermine.  The
               woman died of primary pulmonary hypertension.  An
               international scientific study found the risk of contracting
               the lung disorder greatly increased after 3 months on the
               diet drug combination, but had no conclusions on short-term
               effects.