Merck wins Vioxx trial in Alabama state court
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - An Alabama state court jury on Friday handed Merck & Co. its second victory this week in a Vioxx product liability trial, finding the drugmaker did not hide the health risks associated with its withdrawn arthritis drug, or knowingly market a faulty product.
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US drugs giant Merck is to be fined an initial $20m in after losing a case brought by a user of its Vioxx painkiller.
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A New Orleans jury handed Merck & Co. a victory Wednesday in the latest federal Vioxx product liability trial, finding that the drugmaker adequately warned of the heart risks associated with the medicine.
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Merck &amp; Co  agreed to pay more than $649 million to resolve litigation related to its cholesterol drug Zocor and painkiller Vioxx, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday.
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A New Jersey jury found on Monday that Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and awarded him $20 million in compensatory damages.
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A federal jury found that there was not enough evidence to link MerckÂs painkiller Vioxx to a Kentucky manÂs heart attack.
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A class-action lawsuit was filed yesterday in King County Superior Court on behalf of people who have used the anti-arthritis drug Vioxx.
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A New Orleans jury handed Merck &  Co.  a victory Wednesday in the latest federal Vioxx  product liability trial, finding that the drugmaker adequately  warned of the heart risks associated with the medicine.
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Roche Holding lost the first of 400 lawsuits claiming its Accutane acne drug causes inflammatory bowel disease when a jury awarded an Alabama man $2.62 million.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Merck & Co. scored its second swift victory this week in a Vioxx product liability trial when an Alabama jury found on Friday it did not hide health risks associated with its withdrawn arthritis drug or knowingly market a faulty product.
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Merck agreed yesterday to pay more than $650 million to settle charges that it routinely overbilled the government for its most popular medicines, the arthritis drug Vioxx and the cholesterol drug Zocor, cheating Medicaid out of millions of dollars in discounts over eight years.
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NEW YORK - The withdrawal of the arthritis drug Vioxx two weeks ago was a disaster for Merck. But it also put rival Pfizer in a fix.
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An East Tennessee man claims the arthritis drug Vioxx killed his wife, seven weeks ago. The drug was pulled from store shelves this fall after a report proved Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes in some patients.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey jury found on Friday that Merck & Co.  failed to provide adequate warnings about health risks tied to its withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx in one case, but decided that it gave adequate warning in another in two suits tried simultaneously.
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A US court revives shareholder lawsuits against drugs giant Merck over the health risks of its  painkiller Vioxx.
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Description: Drug maker Merck knew about the health risks of taking the pain medication Vioxx long before it pulled the drug from the market, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Merck &amp; Co. is not liable for the heart attack of a Kentucky man who took the company's Vioxx painkiller for less than five months, a federal jury said yesterday.