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economy. Criticism of the FDA escalated after the 2004 recall of Merck & Co Inc's arthritis medicine Vioxx, a drug taken by millions that was linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. Hamburg...

hit the headlines on Aug. 19, when the Annals of Internal Medicine published an article saying Merck had seeded a 1999 study comparing Vioxx to the common painkiller, naproxen. A seeded study is a marketing campaig...

found Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack for users and was a defective...remain at risk of developing lung cancer," said Chris Slatore, M.D., principal investigator and an assistant professor of medicine (pulmonary ...

and Vioxx (heart attacks) are potent reminders that our best new treatments... benefits typically overwhelm the potential harms. But the calculus is different for those recruited to consume preventive medicine: those ...

and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a team of six investigators analyzed 30 randomized, placebo-controlled trials of Vioxx. "Independent, objective investigators can play a more active role...

of information and innovation. References: (1) Vioxx Deaths, Defective Drugs, adrugrecall.com Recommended Reading: Williamson, Graham, "Orthodox Medicine, Interventionism and Symptom Suppression" Malerba, DO, Larry...

painkiller Vioxx following reports that it increased rates of strokes and... to satisfy the skeptics isn't here yet. Still, their criticism makes the research better. Have you tried any "alternative" medicine? How'd ...

rofecoxib (Vioxx) might have to think again. The risks of the drug, which...attacks and strokes, persist even after people stop taking it, according to a study released Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The ...