Nigerian families who are claiming that the drugs giant Pfizer used their children in an illegal clinical trial will get their case heard in a US court.rnOn 30 January, an appeals court in New York overturned a previous ruling that two lawsuits brought by the families would have to be heard in Nigeria.rnThe lawsuits relate to a trial of the antibiotic Trovan conducted on some 200 children during a 1996 epidemic of bacterial meningitis in Kano, northern Nigeria. Eleven of the treated children died, whilernsome of the others developed brain damage or arthritis.
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