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man’s breasts grew massively after he took an antipsychotic drug when
he was just eight years old. Austin Pledger, now 20, filed a suit
against the manufacturers of the drugs, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a
subsidiary of ,Johnson & Johnson in Philadelphia.
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A
man’s breasts grew massively after he took an antipsychotic drug when
he was just eight years old. Austin Pledger, now 20, filed a suit
against the manufacturers of the drugs, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a
subsidiary of ,Johnson & Johnson in Philadelphia.
Pledger, who hails from Alabama in United States was awarded a compensation of $2.5 million for damages caused by the pills.
He was not properly warned that
he would grow breasts after taking the drugs to deal with irritability
associated with autism, reports Pilly.com.
It was learnt that the label
attached to the drug indicated that it had low risk of gynecomastia, a
condition that causes men to grow female breast.
However, in 2006, the warning on
the drugs was changed indicating that the drug contained high levels
of the breast-growing hormone.
It was rather late as Pledger had begun to develop the enormous breasts.
Jassen’s director of product
communication, Robyn Reed Frenze, refuted claims of the firm not
properly warning the boy’s family “of the medications potential side
effects.”
She added that Pledger’s “quality of life was significantly improved during the time he was taking Risperdal.”
Meanwhile, the huge breasts can only be removed through mastectomy.
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