Quotes from Alicia Mundy

Where the hell did this come from? Alex flipped through a Pondimin package insert he had found in another box and saw the last line: Revised June 20, 1996. A similar warning for Redux, a nearly identical drug, was dated April 29, 1996.

Judge Raymond J. Brassard was a Republican appointee and not considered particularly favorable to plaintiffs' attorneys.

What did the companies know about the link between PPH and their drugs, and when did they know it?

Judge Brassard, they decided, would be played by Alan Alda, the sensitive guy.

By the time of Redux's first shipment to pharmacy shelves in May, PPH numbers were rising rapidly.

About eighteen million prescriptions were written for Fen-Phen that year, and doctors around the country estimated that almost seven million people were taking the drugs.

Shortly after he got back to his office from his Today show segment, Rich received a call from a furious Marc Deitch. "It was frightening," Rich acknowledged later, declining to discuss what was said to him.