Dr. David Graham, a Food and Drug Administration official, told the Senate Finance Committee last Friday that the FDA would be unable to protect the country from another Vioxx case.
Vioxx was pulled from all worldwide markets by Merck & Company, after a study confirmed that the popular arthritis drug increases a patients’ risk of heart […]

A national Vioxx class action lawsuit was filed against Merck & Company on behalf of people who were injured by the arthritis drug, Attorney J. Douglas Peters, a senior shareholder with Charfoos & Christensen, P.C. in Detroit, Michigan, said on Thursday in a press release.
“The Vioxx cases and the negligence surrounding Merck’s development, marketing and […]

The “powerful” arthritis drug Bextra from drug giant Pfizer increases a patients’ risk of heart attack and stroke, according to preliminary results of a study presented yesterday at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The study found that patients taking Bextra experienced twice the number of heart […]

Merck & Company said on Monday that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation related to the Company’s research, marketing and selling activities with respect to Vioxx, the arthritis drug that it pulled from all worldwide markets on September 30, 2004 after a study confirmed that Vioxx increased the risk of heart attacks and […]

Attorney Willie Gary filed on Friday a lawsuit against drug giant Merck & Company and Walgreens, on behalf of Mark Tomlin who suffered heart failure at the age of 49 after taking Vioxx for neck pain.
Tomlin survived the heart attack, but doctors say he suffered so much damage that his life expectancy is in serious […]

A class action lawsuit filed in October against Merck & Company alleges that the approval of its now recalled arthritis drug Vioxx by the FDA in April 1999, may have been based solely on information provided by the drugmaker, the law firm Viles & Beckman said in a press release.
The firm contends that Merck failed […]

Kentucky law firm Getty & Mayo filed a consumer fraud class action lawsuit against Merck & Company, alleging that the company deceived consumers by promoting the popular arthritis drug Vioxx in its advertising as a safe and reliable painkiller, when it knew there were safety risks associated with the use of the drug, the law […]

A class action lawsuit was filed on October 1, 2004 against Merck & Company on behalf of shareholders who purchased Merck securities, including common stock, between October 30, 2003 and September 29, 2004, the law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP said in a press release.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for […]

Lawyers representing Canadians who used the popular arthritis drug Vioxx filed a national class action lawsuit against Merck & Company on behalf of all patients who suffered from cardiovascular complications including heart attack and stroke.
Toronto law firm Rochon Genova LLP filed the lawsuit in Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Four other class actions have been […]

A South Texas woman on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Merck & Company, alleging she had to undergo open-heart surgery after using Vioxx for less than a year to treat her arthritis pain.
On September 30, 2004 Merck announced that it was pulling Vioxx from all worldwide markets after a study confirmed that it increases a […]