An Interview with Alicia Mundy, author of "Dispensing with the Truth"
In nearly 400 pages citing legal documents, studies, corporate e-mails, depositions and interviews, author Alicia Mundy methodically proves that the pharmaceutical company Wyeth-Ayerst knew that its fen-phen diet pills, which included the drugs Pondimin and Redux, were dangerous, but kept them on the market anyway.

Jury awarded $1 billion to family
A Texas jury awarded $1 billion to the family of a woman who died after using one of the drugs in the fen-phen diet drug regimen.

Jury awards $1.36 million to Texas woman
Wyeth (WYE) shares fell more than 7 percent Friday after a Texas jury awarded $1.36 million to a woman who claimed she was injured by its two diet pills once used in the "fen-phen" slimming cocktail.