ILLINOIS - Attorneys for a Madison County resident on Tuesday announced the filing of a class action lawsuit against Merck & Company, alleging that the company defrauded consumers by promoting Vioxx as a safe painkiller.
The plaintiff claims that Merck has unfairly profited by overstating the superiority of Vioxx, while downplaying its dangers.
“Consumers paid [...]

Attorney Kenneth B. McClain on Friday filed a Vioxx Class Action Lawsuit against Merck & Company on behalf of Caroline Nevels, of Lexington Missouri, over the 2002 death of her daughter.
The lawsuit, filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and money for medical monitoring of Vioxx patients.
On September 30, [...]

Kenneth B. Moll & Associates, a Chicago law firm, on Tuesday said it filed the first worldwide Vioxx class action lawsuit against Merck & Co., on behalf of all patients who were prescribed the arthritis drug.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, is seeking to recover damages for patients [...]

An Oklahoma City law firm on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the drugmaker Merck & Co., alleging that its arthritis drug Vioxx was defective and that the company failed to warn the public and healthcare providers of certain risks associated with taking the popular painkiller.
The lawsuit, filed by Federman & Sherwood and Strong, Martin & [...]

Vioxx, arthritis and acute pain medicine, was pulled from the market today by Merck after a study confirmed that it increases the risk of serious cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and strokes.
“We are taking this action because we believe it best serves the interests of patients,” Merck Chairman and CEO Raymond V. Gilmartin said in [...]

Patients taking the highest recommended daily dosage of the arthritis drug Vioxx had three times the risk of heart attack or sudden cardiac death when compared to individuals taking the arthritis drug Celebrex, according to a new government study.
The study, funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, compared the data of 40,405 Kaiser Permanente [...]

Florida Medicaid’s new policy will no longer pay for Neurontin, Zyprexa and so-called COX II pain relievers Celebrex, Vioxx and Bextra unless they are prescribed as listed on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration label, the Sun Sentinel reports.
The new policy ends coverage for many “off-label” uses, uses not approved by the FDA, forcing thousands [...]

Some patients on the popular painkiller Vioxx may be taking up to twice the recommended level, according to a new study published in the June issue of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
Researchers found that doctors often prescribe their patients the highest dose of Vioxx (50 mg) for daily pain relief. However, the 50 mg dose is [...]

Carolyn Baker has filed a lawsuit against Merck & Company claiming she suffered serious side effects after taking the drug maker’s arthritis painkiller, Vioxx. Baker is seeking unspecified damages and compensation to enabler her “to treat and monitor the dangerous, severe and life-threatening side effects” caused by Vioxx, the court papers said.
The side effects are [...]

Some doctors are warning to carefully consider which painkiller you use, as new research suggests that Vioxx and Celebrex may delay healing of a broken bone. There is no proof yet that anti-inflammatory painkillers cause major bone problems, but some bone experts call the research compelling enough that doctors should explain the risk to patients. [...]