SAN ANTONIO, May 16 (UPI) -- The Texas Fourth Court of Appeals overturned a $7.75 million verdict against Merck & Co. in a lawsuit over the heart risk of the painkiller Vioxx.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas have scrapped verdicts against drugmaker Merck stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx....
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Drugmaker Merck & Co. is not liable for the medical monitoring of Vioxx users not claiming injury, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday....
... & Co. study of its since-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, touted to participating doctors and patients as meant to show whether Vioxx caused fewer stomach problems than another drug, was primarily a stealth ...
... drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Department of Justice said Tuesday that drugmaker Merck will pay $950 million to resolve investigations into its marketing of the painkiller Vioxx....
Drugmaker Merck & Co. has reached a deal to settle all lawsuits in Canada over its recalled painkiller Vioxx, for up to about $37 million.
The drug maker has agreed to pay $58 million as part of a multistate settlement concerning advertising for the now-withdrawn painkiller.
... side effects of FDA-approved drugs such as Vioxx in the future because of fatal flaws in the way ...
... risks. When Merck's anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx (rofecoxib) was withdrawn from the market for safety reasons ...
... said, the current studies could offer a mechanistic explanation for how the drug Vioxx increased heart attacks in patients. Vioxx, a selective inhibitor of the enzyme cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), was withdrawn from the market because ...
... inflammation, the reason drugs like the painkiller Vioxx were developed to shut down its action. Then ...
... involving the anti-inflammatory drug rofecoxib (Vioxx) in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA ...
... years in 21 published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex ...
... or with selective COX-2 inhibitors like Vioxx or Celebrex – reduces the number and size of colon ...
