Withdrawal of Vioxx leads to surge in suits
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A month after Merck quit selling Vioxx in the face of new evidence that its blockbuster painkiller caused heart attacks, strokes and other serious ailments, the company and plaintiffsâ lawyers are scrambling to adjust to a surge in related lawsuits.
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When Merck withdrew Vioxx from the market in late September, many patients and their doctors turned to Celebrex with relief, counting on it to deal with
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The arthritis drug Vioxx, used by  millions of people around the world, is being pulled off the  market after a study confirmed long-standing concerns that it  raises the risk of heart attack and stroke, the manufacturer,  Merck & Co. MRK.N, said on Thursday.
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Merck &amp; Co. withdrew the popular drug Vioxx from the market in September, after data from a clinical trial supported claims the medication was associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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NEW YORK - As doctors struggle to come to grips with what the withdrawal of Vioxx means for drug safety, the letters pages of the normally sedate New England Journal of Medicine have turned into a battleground.
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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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Arthritis sufferers across South Africa have been inundating call centres and pharmacists in the wake of the shock withdrawal of their medication by the manufacturers of the most widely used drug treating the disease.
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Merck, the US pharmaceutical giant forced to withdraw its Vioxx painkiller last year, has seen a drop in profits and had to add to its legal reserves.
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VANCOUVER - Just days after the arthritis drug Vioxx was pulled from store shelves, a class action lawsuit has been launched in BC Supreme Court alleging negligence by drug maker Merck and Co.
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Merck announced on Sept. 29 a voluntary worldwide withdrawal of Vioxx (rofecoxib), a so-called COX-2 selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID.
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The withdrawal of Vioxx by competitor Merck has given Pfizer&#39;s two top arthritis drugs a huge share of the world market. But some of the same issues that forced the Vioxx withdrawal still swirl around Pfizer&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra.
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Vioxx, the blockbuster arthritis drug heavily promoted on TV and taken by some 2 million people worldwide, was pulled from the market by its maker yesterday after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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Merck & Co Inc. on Thursday pulled its  arthritis drug Vioxx off the market because it increases the  risk of heart attack and stroke, a move that sent the company's  shares plunging, erasing $25 billion of its market value.
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Merck pulled Vioxx from the market on September 30th, saying it was acting in the best interest of patients. But internal documents reportedly show the company knew as far back as 2000 that
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Shares of Merck plunged nearly 27 percent yesterday on news that the pharmaceutical giant was pulling the popular arthritis pain medication Vioxx off the market in the largest drug withdrawal in US history.
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A day after the popular arthritis drug Vioxx was yanked from the market because of safety concerns, doctors, patients and insurance companies were busy trying to figure out the next step.
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More than 3,000 former users of Merck & Co's withdrawn Vioxx pain drug have already signed up to take part in a $4.85 billion settlement deal that a federal judge on Friday declared was in the best interests of both sides.