Court rejects aspirin case

The High Court today in Britain has rejected a damages claim by 22-year-old Amanda Smith who claimed the Government was negligent in not issuing a speedier warning over a connection between aspirin and a neurological condition which left her severely brain damaged.

Amanda Smith, who is now 22, was a healthy six-year-old until she contracted chickenpox in May 1986 and was given adult aspirin by her mother, Jenny.