Merck Inquiry Backs Conduct Over Vioxx
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An investigator hired by the companyÂs board found that Merck took Âreasonable stepsÂ to research VioxxÂs health risks.
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Top executives at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. decided in May 2000 against developing a study to test directly whether its Vioxx painkiller drug might pose a heart risk, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Merck (MRK) is out with a statement that &quot;strongly disagrees&quot; with the findings of a new study that raised questions about the safety of its Vioxx arthritis drug.
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WASHINGTON - Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration shirked its duty by ignoring safety concerns about Vioxx raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.
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WASHINGTON : Drugs giant Merck and Co.&#39;s shares slumped after the firm revealed civil and criminal investigations into the sale of its pain drug Vioxx.
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Justice Department prosecutors and Securities and Exchange Commission regulators are investigating Merck &#38; Co. for its handling of the painkiller Vioxx, the pharmaceutical giant disclosed yesterday.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating how Vioxx was approved and then taken off the market. It has written to Lester Crawford, FDA, and Ray Gilmartin, CEO of Merck, requesting documents about Vioxx.
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People taking Vioxx may feel betrayed now that the popular painkiller and arthritis medicine has been pulled from the market. Merck, the manufacturer of the drug, and the US Food and Drug Administration knew
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The US Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official&#39;s findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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Responding to public criticism of its handling of the controversial arthritis drug Vioxx, the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday defended its oversight of the monitoring process and said it acted in the best interests of the public&#39;s safety.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Federal regulators and the drug maker Merck &amp; Co. were aware of risks that the company's Vioxx painkiller could cause serious heart problems before the drug was approved in 1999, government and expert witnesses told a Senate committee Thursday.
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Drugmaker Merck has set up an independent committee to review the firm&#39;s actions prior to the withdrawal of its painkiller Vioxx from the market in September.
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The European Commission has ordered a  full-scale probe into the safety of five remaining Cox-2  arthritis drugs, following last month's worldwide withdrawal of  Merck & Co Inc.'s Vioxx.
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Merck & Co. Inc.  said on Monday that it received a subpoena from the U.S. Justice Department and that the Securities and Exchange Commission has started an informal inquiry concerning its recalled pain reliever Vioxx.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the  way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they  hit the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.
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A jury on Thursday found  Merck &amp; Co.&#039;s  withdrawn pain medicine Vioxx was not a  substantial factor in the heart attack of a 68-year-old New  Jersey woman.
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Is the US Food &amp; Drug Administration failing? That was the testimony of one senior FDA official last week concerning Merck&#39;s withdrawal of the Vioxx anti-pain drug.