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• Vioxx Risks Could Have Been Detected In 2000

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 576
  That’s according to a new analysis that shows there was an association between the Merck drug and cardiovascular risk as early as December 2000. Vioxx, you may recall, was withdrawn in September 2004, after mounting debate about heart risks linked to the painkiller. The analysis appears in the Archives of Internal ...
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• Vioxx Problems Known Years Before Recall

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 546
  MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Problems with the popular arthritis drug Vioxx, including increased risk for heart attack , stroke and death, were known for years before the drugs voluntary withdrawal from the market in 2004, a new report says. Image:  ...
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• Court Dismisses Texas Vioxx Suit Against Merck

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 576
  The Texas Attorney had filed a lawsuit in 2005 seeking a refund for money the state spent on Merck’s controversial painkiller, which had been withdrawn from the market the previous year over links to heart attacks and strokes. The suit sought damages and penalties from Merck for alleged violations of the Texas ...
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• The Times Beats Prostate Cancer

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 702
  The front page of Fridays New York Times takes Americans to task for ignoring simple, proven ways of preventing cancer, leading with the blockbuster example of finasteride, a generic drug that, for a mere $2 a day, could prevent 50,000 prostate-cancer deaths a year. Wow, just $2 a day? And 50,000 lives saved? How ...
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• Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  Richard Nagareda has just posted "Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation" on SSRN. I saw him present this piece at NYU and it is worth reading. I always enjoy Nagaredas work and this is no exception. The Article does a good...
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• Mel Reichmans Drug Discovery Talk

  
  Useful Chemistry — Authority: 115
  Mel Reichman gave an outstanding presentation at Drexel on November 12, 2009. I think many of our faculty and students benefited from his unique perspective on high throughput drug discovery and the story of Vioxx from both chemistry and intellectual property considerations. Unfortunately the resolution of the ...
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• PhRMAs last two Chairmen

  
  PharmaGossip — Authority: 491
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• The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  My new paper, The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements, is now available on SSRN. I presented it at last weeks symposium in Kansas on "Aggregate Justice: Perspectives Ten Years After Amchem and Ortiz." The theme of the conference got me thinking...
  2 weeks ago

• Should We Trust the FDA?

  
  Natural Bias by Vin Miller — Authority: 119
  The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was put in place to protect and support the health of the general public. Unfortunately, it’s become clear over the past few decades that the FDA is protecting and supporting something entirely different and is actually endangering our health more so than ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vioxx Verdicts

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  I am collecting all the Vioxx verdicts - here is what I have so far. I welcome reader corrections and information about the current status of all of these cases - have they been appealed to higher courts? settled and...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Sides With Investors in Merck Lawsuit

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  Smart Money By Brent Kendall Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES October 27, 2009 WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Obama administration sided with investors Monday in a U.S. Supreme Court case that examines whether shareholders of Merck & Co. Inc . (MRK) waited too long to file securities lawsuits alleging the ...
  3 weeks ago

• White House Sides With Investors Against Merck

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 576
  The Obama administration is siding with investors in a US Supreme Court case that examines whether Merck shareholders waited too long to file securities lawsuits alleging the drug maker misrepresented the safety of its Vioxx painkiller drug, which was yanked in 2004, Dow Jones reports. US Solicitor General Elena ...
  3 weeks ago

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