
Vioxx was a blockbuster drug. Launched by Merck & Co., Inc., in 1999 as a treatment for painful arthritis , its annual sales soon reached $2 billion. The benefits were much the same as other anti-inflammatory...

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side effects are accepted for cancer drugs, for example, but not for an allergy drug such as Seldane, which on rare occasions caused sudden death...symptoms. The multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri was withdrawn in 2005 bec...

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fatal heart attack in order to have their arthritic pain relieved without other side-effects The blockbuster anti-athritis drug Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attacks and was not fit to be on the market for arthrit...

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threatening side effects for some patients. The industry has been spurred into action by a series of problems where drugs have been rejected by ... Merck withdrew its painkiller Vioxx in 2004 over fears it increased...

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dangerous side effects and deaths from widely used medicines almost tripled between 1998 and 2005, an analysis of U.S. drug data found. The number...study of reports to the Food and Drug Administration . Potent narcotic...