Thursday, March 11, 2010
Merck: Last Vioxx patient payouts to be made soon (Asbury Park Press)
Drugmaker Merck & Co. has made its final, $4.1 billion payment into a fund to settle tens of thousands of U.S. claims that withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused heart attacks or strokes, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Vioxx doubled heart attack risk, Australian court rules (The Daily Commercial)
KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SYDNEY -- The once-popular painkiller Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and was unfit for consumption ...
