Early Vioxx Alarms Alleged
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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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People who take Merck &amp; Co. Inc.&#39;s analgesic Vioxx are nearly three times as likely to have heart attacks as those taking Pfizer Inc.
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Suspicions that the arthritis drug Vioxx could cause serious cardiovascular damage arose as early as 1999, the year Vioxx was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a next-generation remedy that might be safer than older drugs like ibuprofen.
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Heart risks associated with Merck & Co.'s painkiller Vioxx began much sooner than the company has claimed, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Tuesday, citing a new study.
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The withdrawal of Vioxx from the market in September and more recent concerns about its cousin Bextra have raised safety questions about this entire class of painkillers
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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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The recent Vioxx withdrawal and testimony from an FDA insider accusing the agency of failing to protect public health are fueling such heightened
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Justice Department prosecutors and Securities and Exchange Commission regulators are investigating Merck &amp; Co. for its handling of the painkiller Vioxx, the pharmaceutical giant disclosed yesterday.
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Last weekâs dramatic withdrawal of the COX-2 inhibitor rofecoxib (Vioxx) is discussed in this weekâs lead editorial in THE LANCET, which comments that more vigilant drug licensing is vital to prevent the endangering of patientsâ health.
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By James Ragland, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 18--The alarm industry certainly knows how to fight.   Not sure anyone can say they're playing dirty.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md.  - U.S. scientific advisers  began hearing evidence on Wednesday about the benefits and  risks of pain killers taken by millions of Americans as  regulators weigh moves following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of  its arthritis pill Vioxx.
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A doctor who first sounded an alarm about heart problems and the prescription pain killer Vioxx now is calling on the government to rein in aggressive prescription-drug advertising, a factor
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A Brooklyn lawyer announced plans yesterday to file the first federal lawsuits against Merck &amp; Co. on behalf of New Yorkers who developed heart troubles using the arthritis drug Vioxx.
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There is an accusation that drug giant Merck knew about safety problems long before pulling its pain reliever Vioxx off the market in September.
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Merck &amp; Co.'s chairman and chief executive Raymond Gilmartin yesterday defended his firm's handling of earlier health warnings about Vioxx and said he was &quot;stunned&quot; when he learned two weeks ago that a Merck clinical trial had confirmed the drug could cause strokes and heart attacks.
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Doctors have been taking calls from anxious patients ever since a Senate hearing on Vioxx last week at which an FDA scientist expressed concerns about the safety of five other drugs on the market.
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WASHINGTON -- A study led by a Food and Drug Administration safety official projects that the widespread use of Vioxx may have led to more than 27,000 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths before the drug&#39;s abrupt withdrawal last week by Merck &amp; Co.