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Arthritis drug Vioxx ‘not fit for sale’, says...
I have never been happy with the attack on Vioxx. It has focused mainly on “ad hominem” accusations against the company rather than on the medical evidence. Let me summarize that evidence briefly: Less that one half...
The Vioxx Story
In his book Doubt is Their Product , David Michaels (currently head of OSHA) tells the Vioxx story in a way I’d never heard before (pp. 146-147): Aspirin and Aleve work by inhibiting the COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes...
Australian court: Vioxx doubled heart attack risk
The once-popular painkiller Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and was unfit for consumption, an Australian court ruled Friday, awarding a man leading a class action suit against the drug's maker 287,000 Austral...
Vioxx side effects could have been known years...
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...
When Did Merck Know Vioxx Was Deadly?
School of Medicine, and colleagues. The study authors were paid consultants to plaintiffs' lawyers in Vioxx lawsuits -- in which much of the Merck data first was revealed. "By our analyses, the association is clear...
Court finds arthritis drug Vioxx to be defective
The Federal Court has ruled the makers of the controversial arthritis drug Vioxx put a defective drug on the market, which doubled the risk of heart attacks. Melbourne man Graeme Peterson has been awarded compensati...
'Hairy time' in Merck staff's Vioxx spoof
CONCERNS that anti-arthritis drug Vioxx caused heart attacks were spoofed as a "hairy time" by Merck & Co sales staff in a beauty salon-themed skit. But it didn't "foil" them because "there must be more tangles to...
Federal judge rules for Merck in state Vioxx suit
TRENTON, N.J. - Drugmaker Merck & Co. on Tuesday won the first trial over withdrawn painkiller Vioxx brought by a state trying to recoup what it paid for residents to take the drug, arguing it wouldn't have been...
Lead attorneys in Vioxx settlement get $315.3M
The federal judge overseeing the thousands of lawsuits filed over withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has ruled that the lead lawyers in the case will get $315.3 million, while other lawyers who sued Merck & Co. will share $...
Doctor hounded by Vioxx drug reps
THE Melbourne doctor who prescribed Vioxx to a man suing the manufacturer on the grounds the anti-arthritis drug allegedly triggered a heart attack, was visited 124 times in three years by drug company representativ...