HEDGE Fund Shorts VIOXX

Vioxx Safety Controversy & Reform of the FDA
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Consumer attorney, Guerry R. Thornton, Jr., an Atlanta lawyer who handles Vioxx claims, is taking a strong stance in favor of a new ...
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Did Vioxx critic have fund short Merck?
CNN/Money - USA
Fortune: Dr. Eric Topol, who questioned Vioxx years before, advised a hedge fund to short drugmaker. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prominent ...
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Verispan Reports: Divergent Patterns Emerge Within Individual ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
2, 2004--In the month following the withdrawal of Merck's COX-2 inhibitor Vioxx from the market, the majority of Medicaid patients who had been taking the ...
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Bilbrey's Vioxx action moved to federal court
Madison County Record - Edwardsville,IL,USA
Madison County's first class action suit against Merck & Co.'s Vioxx, filed by the mother of Edwardsville personal injury attorney Mike Bilbrey, was removed to ...


Florida Company, Dr. Notes, Inc., Provides Real-Time Clinical Data ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... When Merck pulled Vioxx off the market, Merck's announcement stated, "In this study, there was an increased relative risk for confirmed cardiovascular events ...


Merck contests hundreds of suits
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By David Voreacos. Keith Stubblefield took Merck & Co.'s Vioxx painkiller for six weeks before he had a fatal heart attack while washing his car. ...
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