Judge denies class in Fosamax cases against Merck
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A U.S. federal judge has denied motions to certify classes of users of osteoporosis drug Fosamax who wanted Merck & Co  to set up a program to monitor them for an ailment involving jaw bone decay.
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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 federal judge on Wednesday threw   out a $50 million jury award against Merck & Co. Inc. MRK.N,   calling the compensation excessive for a former FBI agent who   suffered a heart attack while using Merck's Vioxx painkiller   and saying a new trial on damages was needed.
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A U.S. judge has granted a request from  Sanofi-Aventis and U.S. partner Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.   to block the sale in the United States of a generic  form of its top selling blood-thinner Plavix, giving a boost to  shares in the French drugmaker on Friday.
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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A New Jersey jury found on Friday that Merck & Co.  failed to provide adequate warnings about health risks tied to its withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx in one case, but decided that it gave adequate warning in another in two suits tried simultaneously.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 federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday rejected a bid by class action attorney Melvyn Weiss and his law firm to have their criminal conspiracy trial moved to New York
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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The Delaware judge overseeing the legal wrangling there between PeopleSoft (Profile, Products, Articles) and hostile suitor Oracle (Profile, Products, Articles) rejected on
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CNET is reporting that US District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco has denied a request by the Antitrust Division of the federal Department of Justice to issue an injunction against Oracle&#39;s hostile acquisition of business software maker PeopleSoft
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A federal judge on Saturday denied a  tobacco industry request to delay the government's $280 billion  racketeering case against the industry which is scheduled to go  to trial on Sept. 21.
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A jury rejected the claims of an Alabama man who blamed the painkiller Vioxx for a heart attack in 2001.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) _ The New York state comptroller sued Merck &amp; Co., claiming the drug maker hid certain risks associated with the painkiller Vioxx.
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The widow and son of a Texas man who was taking a GlaxoSmithKline Plc diabetes drug at the time of his fatal heart attack claims the drugmaker failed to warn about the drug's risks, according to a lawsuit.
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TORONTO - A Toronto-based law firm filed another class-action lawsuit Friday against drug maker Merck and Co. Inc., the makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx.
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The judge presiding over a Vioxx personal injury trial in Atlantic City rejected a motion to give one of the two plaintiffs a second chance at winning damages.
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A judge on Friday denied a defeated congressional candidate's request for a new Republican primary, saying the state court lacks jurisdiction.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- A federal court invalidated the patent yesterday for Merck &amp; Co.'s second-largest-selling drug, the blockbuster osteoporosis treatment Fosamax, in a decision that offers millions of patients hope for a cheaper version sooner, but darkens the company's already clouded outlook.