Novartis Granted Summary Judgment in Aredia/Zometa Injury Case

ATLANTA - A Georgia federal judge has granted Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. summary judgment on claims that its cancer drugs Aredia and Zometa caused a woman to contract osteonecrosis of the jaw and undergo tooth extractions. Eberhart v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., No. 1:08-2542 (N.D. Ga.).

On Oct. 31, Judge William S. Duffey Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that the plaintiff failed to present evidence that had her doctors received a different warning as to the alleged link between the drugs and ONJ, they still would have extracted her teeth because endodontic therapy was …