Word: vioxx
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Estimated number of Vioxx cases still pending, each of which the drugmaker has vowed to fight individually...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors are questioning a colleague’s court testimony that there is no link between the short-term use of the popular painkiller Vioxx and severe heart problems.HMS Associate Professor of Medicine J. Michael Gaziano’s testimony this week in the New Jersey Superior Court broke from the published work of two of his colleagues, Assistant Professor of Medicine Daniel H. Solomon and Professor of Medicine Jerome L. Avorn.Avorn said that he could find no explanation for Gaziano’s ideas, as expressed in court. “You?...
...might think that after Michael Brown's FEMA fiasco, the White House would try to avoid any appearance of cronyism in job appointments requiring technical expertise. You might think that after the Plan B contraceptive flap and safety problems with drugs like Vioxx, it would seek to avoid controversy while picking someone to run the embattled Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Think again...
...Three years ago another big NIH study showed that a cheap, old-fashioned diuretic (a.k.a. water pill) worked better for most folks with high blood pressure than did costly, cutting-edge medications. (These included a calcium-channel blocker and an ACE inhibitor). Then there's the sad lesson of Vioxx and its ilk. That category of painkillers captured a $5 billion-a-year market on the celebrated promise that they were safer than older, cheaper analgesics like Tylenol or Advil. In this case, as the nation learned when Vioxx and Bextra were withdrawn and Celebrex got slapped with a black...