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...been a painful 15 months both for people with arthritis and for the companies that make their painkilling drugs. The once high-flying anti-inflammatories known as cox-2 inhibitors nearly crashed and burned in September 2004, when Merck's popular Vioxx was pulled from the market after a study revealed it could raise the risk of heart attack and stroke. A competitor made by Pfizer, Bextra, was yanked some months later, leaving only Pfizer's Celebrex behind-and a new, required safety warning hasn't exactly done wonders for that drug's appeal. Celebrex sales are off more than...
...VACCINES If all goes well, the FDA could approve the first vaccine for cervical cancer by 2006. A large-scale study presented at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in October found that Merck's experimental vaccine Gardasil was 100% effective against two strains of human papillomavirus that cause 70% of all cervical cancers. Another experimental Merck vaccine was tested this year for protection against shingles, the painful blistering disorder caused by the chicken-pox virus. In a trial of more than 38,500 adults 60 and older, the vaccine cut the risk of shingles by more...
...Increase in the share price of Merck the day a jury found its Vioxx drug had not caused a postal worker's heart attack, in the second Vioxx case to reach trial; Merck lost the first in August...
...Botswana government hired McKinsey to help design an AIDS-treatment program--a critical need in a country where 300,000 people out of a population of 1.6 million are infected with HIV. Darkoh volunteered to draw up the program and presented it to the Botswana leadership. With funding from Merck and the Gates Foundation, the government brought him to the capital, Gaborone, where he set up shop. What Darkoh found when he arrived was a population not only ravaged by AIDS but also seemingly numb to its horrors. "Someone would come into work and say his brother died," Darkoh says...
...Professor of Medicine Jerome L. Avorn.Avorn said that he could find no explanation for Gaziano’s ideas, as expressed in court. “You’d have to ask him that yourself,” said Avorn. “The evidence is incontrovertible. Merck [the company that manufactures Vioxx] itself admitted that it found a doubling of heart attack and stroke in Vioxx users in a randomized trial it conducted. That’s why it took the drug off the market.”Gaziano, a cardiologist who has never done Vioxx research, said...