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• Prempro lawsuits: Pfizer hit with $103 million more in punitive damages

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Company News , Healthcare , Pfizer , Merck It seems that for Pfizer ( PFE ), the saga of Prempro is just beginning. Barely a month after the worlds largest pharmaceutical company lost a case related to Wyeths Prempro hormone replacement therapy drug and was ordered to pay punitive damages on top of ...
  5 days ago

• Vioxx Dangers Should Have Been Known Years Before Recall

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 487
  We have long been writing about the links between Merck’s blockbuster nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory medication Vioxx (rofecoxib) and negative cardiac events. Now, according to Science Daily, a study has found that evidence of cardiovascular risks linked to Vioxx might have been realized almost four years before ...
  5 days ago

• Lessons from Vioxx

  
  http://www.gooznews.com/ — Authority: 493
  In September 2004, Merck voluntarily withdrew Vioxx (rofecoxib) from the world market after an interim safety analysis showed that Vioxx was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events.  After the APPROVe trial was released in November 2004, Mercks CEO testified before a U.S. Senate committee that ...
  5 days ago

• Check That - Lets Look At Something Else (Vioxx and Fosamax)

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 527
  Yesterday we mentioned that Merck had won summary judgment in a consumer protection-type suit brought by the Texas Attorney General concerning Vioxx. We hoped for an "interesting opinion." Well, check that. Weve now seen the order - and thats all there is (at least for now) - an order. Here it is , but it doesnt ...
  5 days ago

• Public Database Is Urged to Monitor Drug Safety

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  A study proposes a broad model for monitoring drug safety that would consist of detailed publicly available data that independent researchers could freely analyze.
  5 days ago

• Vioxx Risks Could Have Been Detected In 2000

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  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 Vioxx, you may recall, was withdrawn in September 2004, after mounting debate about heart risks linked to the painkiller.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 ...
  5 days ago

• Vioxx Problems Known Years Before Recall

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  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:  ...
  6 days ago

• Merck Wins Vioxx AG Case In Texas

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 527
  Bexis cant say much anyway, since his firms involved in Vioxx, and neither of us have seen the opinion, but Merck announced today that it was granted summary judgment today in the Texas state AG consumer protection litigation. Heres a link to Mercks press release . When we get a copy of what promises to be an ...
  6 days ago

• Court Dismisses Texas Vioxx Suit Against Merck

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Vote for best story of Year 3! and Manifesto Monday tomorrow

  
  The Great Canadian Talk Show — Authority: 112
  Young Josh has reviewed the list and has determined the following 10 nominees for Story of the Year. You can register your vote at talk@kick.fm and one lucky voter who picks the winning entry will get a special prize package courtesy of TGCTS and 92.9 Kick-FM! The nominees are: 1) Porkgate - the ...
  6 days ago

• The Times Beats Prostate Cancer

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 700
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 460
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• PhRMAs last two Chairmen

  
  PharmaGossip — Authority: 515
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  2 weeks ago

• The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 460
  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...
  3 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: 460
  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...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama Sides With Investors in Merck Lawsuit

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 141
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• White House Sides With Investors Against Merck

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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