Wednesday, February 09, 2005

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First Vioxx, Now Thimerosal: When it Comes to Safety, Merck Keeps ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- A Los Angeles Times article today reports that Merck, a leading manufacturer of prescription ...
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Merck Canceled an Early Study of Vioxx
Lakeland Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
Merck & Company executives have long insisted that they never pursued a clinical trial to directly study the heart risks of the pain drug Vioxx because other ...
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Merck Cancelled An Early Study Of Vioxx
TheDay (subscription) - New London,CT,USA
... executives have long insisted that they never pursued a clinical trial to directly study the heart risks of the pain drug Vioxx because other tests they were ...
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MedicineNet Survey Shows Former Vioxx Users Getting Less Pain ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
MedicineNet survey shows that former users of Vioxx report negative consequences of the drug's withdrawal from the market including less pain relief, side ...


Walgreen's and Merck blamed for Vioxx customers' heart ailments
Madison County Record - Edwardsville,IL,USA
... Circuit Court Feb. 4, claiming their use of the arthritis pain reliever Vioxx caused them to suffer heart damage. Merck pulled the ...
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Vioxx Killed My Husband [It's Bush's Fault]
Useless-Knowledge.com - USA
... While he lay next to me, Peter Jennings was talking about Merck Pharmaceuticals and the drug vioxx. Vioxx killed my husband just ...


Drugmaker Expands Vioxx Refund Program
INDYchannel.com - Indianapolis,IN,USA
INDIANAPOLIS -- A drugmaker has expanded its refund program for recalled painkiller Vioxx, saying even people who discarded the pills can now qualify. ...

Pfizer rises after calling Celebrex safe
MarketWatch - USA
... on Monday, following news that the company has told US regulatory officials that all of its in-house clinical studies show its pain reliever Celebrex is safe. ...
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Merck records show early concerns about Vioxx
MSNBC - USA
... show that a committee monitoring the safety of arthritis drug Vioxx in a clinical trial had early data suggesting users could be at increased risk of heart ...
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More Bad News For Merck Over Vioxx Article?
Health Talk - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
An article published in the Wall Street Journal today questions when Merck knew their pain drug Vioxx caused patients to experience an increase in the risk of ...
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Pfizer Review Shows No Cardiovascular Risk in Celebrex
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
By Theresa Agovino. Pfizer said Celebrex showed no increased overall risk of cardiovascular problems in a massive analysis of 41 completed studies. ...


Celebrex Fight
Chemical & Engineering News - USA
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen confronted Pfizer last week over a 1999 study of the drug firm's COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex (celecoxib), claiming that the ...



A recent study shows that doctors overprescribed Vioxx ...
News Target - Taichung,Taiwan
A recent study examined the tendencies of doctors to prescribe Vioxx, a drug that Merck recalled after learning that it increased the risk of heart attack, and ...
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