Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Health Buzz: Runner's High and Other Health NewsU.S. News & World Report, DC - Mar 27, 2008This HealthDay article offers examples of three drugs, including Vioxx, that were rushed to approval and then yanked from the market because of risks that …
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Vioxx/Bextra: “They get you fixed but then they stonewall you.”Lawyers and Settlements - Mar 27, […]
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Health Buzz: Runner's High and Other Health NewsU.S. News & World Report, DC - Mar 27, 2008This HealthDay article offers examples of three drugs, including Vioxx, that were rushed to approval and then yanked from the market because of risks that …
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Vioxx/Bextra: “They get you fixed but then they stonewall you.”Lawyers and Settlements - Mar 27, […]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Vioxx/Bextra: “They get you fixed but then they stonewall you.”Lawyers and Settlements - 12 hours agoHe's also a survivor of Merck's Vioxx and Pfizer's Bextra, two nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) that were pulled from the market because of a …Rush decisions by FDA may subvert drug safety MSNBCall 2 news articles
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Risk averse? Not us, […]
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The Money Times
The FDA is investigating a possible link between a popular allergy …News 10NBC, NY - 3 hours ago… public earlier about possible safety issues after being criticized for acting too slowly on information about risk from Merk's popular painkiller Vioxx. …Video: Suicide Linked To Singulair? CBS
FDA, Health Canada probing possible suicide link with allergy drug […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Riverboat Poker and ParadoxesAmerican Enterprise Institute, DC - Mar 25, 2008There have been only a handful of Vioxx trials, but the announced settlement of the Vioxx litigation provides strong tells as to the weakness of the …
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After a Revival, Merck CEO Clark Faces Trying SpringWall Street Journal - Mar 24, 2008Chief Executive Richard Clark won plaudits […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
ALSO NOTED: TN Medicaid to test e-prescribing program; NIH alerts …FierceHealthcare, DC - 21 hours agoIf scientists and regulators had had access to every bit of data on Vioxx from the get-go, for instance, would heart attacks and strokes have been averted? …
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Riverboat Poker and ParadoxesAmerican Enterprise Institute, DC - 22 hours agoThere have been only a […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Merck & Co. to Pay $4.85 Billion in Personal Injury Cases Due to VioxxLawyers and Settlements - Mar 23, 2008Trenton, NJ: Vioxx is the impetus feeding the fire of over 44000 personal injury lawsuits being exacted against Pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck & Co. …
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Riverboat Poker and ParadoxesAmerican Enterprise Institute, DC - 12 hours agoThere have been only […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Merck & Co. to Pay $4.85 Billion in Personal Injury Cases Due to VioxxLawyers and Settlements - Mar 23, 2008Trenton, NJ: Vioxx is the impetus feeding the fire of over 44000 personal injury lawsuits being exacted against Pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck & Co. …
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After a Revival, Merck CEO Clark Faces Trying SpringWall Street Journal - 12 […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Grieving Daughter talks about CelebrexLawyers and Settlements - 16 hours agoI read about Dr. Mercola in 2003; he was warning people about the dangers of Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx back then. If I had read that sooner, …
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Could full data disclosure avert scandal?FiercePharma, DC - 13 hours agoIf scientists and regulators had had access to every […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Book reveals health industry secretsHouston Chronicle, United States - 12 hours agoSome of this information — such as the trials of Vioxx — has become quite public, but there's still much to be learned from his look behind some of the most …
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Grieving Daughter talks about CelebrexLawyers and Settlements - 4 hours agoI read about Dr. […]
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