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...lawyers about Merck's aggressive sales and marketing tactics and about a corporate culture that, they claimed, prizes profits over honest science. Merck, however, is hardly alone in being accused of such things. Wyeth, for one, has set aside $21 billion to pay for claims stemming from fen-phen, its faulty diet-drug combo. Analysts estimate that Merck could be on the hook for more than $18 billion in Vioxx damages...
MERIDIA One of the few remaining drug treatments for obesity after fen-phen and Redux were pulled from the market, Meridia has been associated with blood-pressure problems in some people. But, says the drug's maker, you have to balance that potential problem against the severe health risks of obesity...
...LOSE WEIGHT IN A WAY THAT ENHANCES HEALTH RATHER THAN HARMS IT. You can lose weight by smoking cigarettes or taking such stimulants as amphetamines, fen phen and ephedra, but they are not healthful ways of doing...
Other Tulsa lawyers on the RCC include Cochran and Dennis Sweet, a Mississippi-based attorney who helped win a landmark $400 million verdict against the maker of the Fen-Phen diet pill...
...thousands of fen/ phen users started showing up in doctor's offices and hospitals with catastrophic heart and lung problems. One of them was an athletic but overweight Boston- area bride-to-be, Mary Linnen, 29. Hoping to look a little more svelte in her wedding dress, Linnen had been taking the pills for only 23 days before she developed a fatal lung condition, primary pulmonary hypertension, that effectively suffocated her within the year. Many other pill takers turned up with plaque-riddled heart valves requiring open-heart surgery...