Hundreds of Vioxx lawsuits, individual and class actions, will be consolidated in a federal court in New Orleans before Judge Eldon E. Fallon, favored by many plaintiffs’ lawyers, the New York Times reported last week.
The lawsuits filed against Merck & Company allege death and heart problems from taking its pain relief drug Vioxx.
According to the New York Times, Fallon was selected because of his schedule availability and experience. “He is overseeing a proposed settlement reached in his court last year for all federal injury claims related to Propulsid, a heartburn drug made by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary.”
In Sept. 2004, Merck pulled Vioxx from all markets after a study found that it increases a patients’ risk of heart attack and stroke.
(via New York Times)
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michael hammond // Aug 26, 2005 at 6:20 pm
The pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars drugging school children and this is a form of genocide: condemning millions of young lives to a drug addicted future. They employ “experts” and lobbyist and hire ex FDA personnel and retired congressman to get pro-drug legislation passed. Newspapers and magazines receive billions of dollars a year in advertising, and investment firms make big bucks touting the latest snake oil; so it would be a rare article indeed that went against Big Pharma. The industry is motivated by the bottom line and shareholders not Science. A Google search of Ritalin and Cocaine, Prozac, chemical imbalance, school shootings, will show even the most skeptical that something is horribly wrong when 6 million school children ( plans are in place to increase this by 40% each year) are on anti-depressant drugs prescribed to handle “disorders” created to sell the drugs. Now after the Texas Vioxx decision Big Pharma’s stooges are flooding their editorial outlets ( USA Today, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal) with demands that the government protect the drug companies. Michael
PS The decision by the Texas jury was rendered because the defendant couldn’t explain their faulty “science” to the common man. Something that contains lies is very hard to explain as it gets very complicated whereas that which is true is simple and easy to explain.
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