Judge Rejects Merckâs View on F.D.A. Issue
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Food and Drug Administration approval of a drug label does not clear the manufacturer of claims that its warnings were inadequate, a judge ruled.
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A federal judge overturned a $50   million award handed down by jury against Merck & Co. earlier   this month in a case of a former FBI agent who had blamed the   withdrawn painkiller Vioxx for his heart attack, the Wall   Street Journal reported on its web site on Wednesday.
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A federal judge has ruled that some product-liability claims against Boston Scientific Corp.  over implantable heart defibrillators can proceed, rejecting the medical device maker's motions to dismiss them.
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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.
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D. A US District Court Judge in New York State declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional because it does not contain an exception to protect a woman&#39;s health.
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A federal judge has ruled that some  product liability claims against Boston Scientific Corp.   over heart defibrillators can proceed, rejecting the  medical device company&#39;s motions to dismiss them.
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A federal judge this week issued an injunction stopping the FDA from starting enforcement of regulations that require pharmaceutical companies to document the chain of custody for drug products.
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A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a  request from Sanofi-Aventis  and Bristol-Myers Squibb  Co.  to block the sale of a generic form of their  top-selling Plavix blood thinner.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel urged the government on Thursday to reject Merck & Co Inc's latest bid to sell a cholesterol-lowering drug without a prescription.
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The Food and Drug Administration  ignored danger signals from its own scientists about Merck and  Co. Inc.'s Vioxx painkiller, Sen. Charles Grassley told a  hearing Thursday into the drug's withdrawal in September.
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A US judge refuses a request to combine thousands of lawsuits involving the painkiller Vioxx into a class action.
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Merck failed to warn doctors about the risks of its painkiller Vioxx and must pay a retired FBI agent $50 million to compensate for the heart attack he suffered after taking the drug, a federal jury found Thursday.
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A federal judge on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of an Ohio law that requires doctors to follow FDA guidelines when dispensing drugs for medical abortions, the Cincinnati Post reports.
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Even as Merck was deciding to withdraw the drug, there were medical experts arguing that it should not.
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Beleaguered pharmaceutical giant Merck &amp; Co. Inc. has appointed a special committee of board members and a retired federal judge to review the company&#39;s actions before it
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 26  Â A federal jury ruled in favor of Merck on Tuesday in a lawsuit over the painkiller Vioxx, finding that there was not enough evidence to link the drug to a Kentucky manÂs heart attack.
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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.