Jury: Merck failed to warn about Vioxx
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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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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey jury reached verdicts on Friday in cases brought by two plaintiffs against drug maker Merck & Co.  over its withdrawn Vioxx arthritis drug.
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules against the possibility of a national class action Vioxx lawsuit.
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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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Merck &amp; Co., Inc., knew of problems with its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx long before the drug was pulled from the market in September due to newer studies that linked the medication to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, the Wall Street Journal
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A federal jury found that Merck had adequately warned of the heart risks associated with the arthritis pain reliever.
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A New Jersey jury on Monday ordered  Merck & Co.  to pay $27.5 million in punitive damages  after finding that the drugmaker was willful and reckless in  promoting arthritis medicine Vioxx, which has since been  withdrawn.
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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this week in a  Vioxx product liability trial, finding the drugmaker did not  hide the health risks associated with its withdrawn arthritis  drug, or knowingly market a faulty product.
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Merck & Co. Inc. said on Tuesday   that a federal jury in New Orleans ruled in its favor in a   lawsuit over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, in which a   Kentucky man said it caused him to have a heart attack.
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A New Jersey jury found on Monday that Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and awarded him $20 million in compensatory damages.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - Merck & Co.  failed to provide adequate warnings about health risks tied to its withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx in one case, but gave adequate warning in another, a New Jersey jury found on Friday in a split decision in two suits tried simultaneously.
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A review of Merck's handling of Vioxx suggests that actions the company took - and did not take - may have affected the health of potentially thousands of patients.
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Pharmaceutical company Merck &amp; Co. &quot;strongly&quot; disagreed Thursday with the conclusions of a Food and Drug Administration-funded study that said use of the company&#39;s arthritis pain reliever Vioxx increased the risk of heart attack.
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Merck &amp; Co. (MRK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer trial confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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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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The FDA (USA) says it did not try to suppress the findings of a safety official regarding the Vioxx painkiller. Vioxx was taken off the market last week because the drug increases a patient&#39;s risk of having a heart attack.
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Merck's HIV vaccine fails in phase 2 trials.