Consumer group sues Merck in Canada
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MONTREAL : A consumer group in Quebec has sued the pharmaceutical firm Merck in Canada, charging that it kept its pain and arthritis drug Vioxx on the market despite the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
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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after finding that the drugmaker was willful and reckless in promoting arthritis medicine Vioxx, which has since been withdrawn.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co...
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The pharmacists&#39; associations in Missouri and Illinois have begun a campaign warning that a new multistate program for getting drugs by mail from Canada violates federal law and risks public health.
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A drug manufacturer has been found to infringe patents licensed by the maker of a rival drug.
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The maker of generic drugs gets sued twice in one week.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri woman is suing the maker of arthritis drug Vioxx over the 2002 death of her daughter. The suit was filed Friday by Caroline Nevels of Lexington, Mo.
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A group of 14 independent pharmacists in California filed a lawsuit in Oakland on Thursday against the world&#39;s largest pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of conspiring to inflate drug prices in the United States as part of an illegal price-fixing
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Japan Tobacco's (2914.T) JTI-Macdonald Corp. unit filed for court protection from creditors on Tuesday in a fight with Quebec tax officials, who have accused the firm of smuggling to avoid more than &#36;1 billion in taxes.
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Merck &amp; Co. officials said Tuesday they intend to defend aggressively their handling of the painkiller Vioxx against claims by patients who say they were harmed by the now-withdrawn drug.
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Pfizer settled a lawsuit against a rival drug maker, Novartis, for alleged infringement of a United States patent for the antibiotic medicine Zithromax. Pfizer sued Novartis and Sandoz, a unit operating in the United States, in February 2006 in federal court in Wilmington, Del., saying it would be irreparably harmed by the rival companiesâ use of the invention for forms of crystal azithromycin; Pfizer sought unspecified damages. The parties have agreed to settle all claims over the 2005 drug patent, and the suit was dismissed June 25, according to court papers. Pfizer is based in New York, and Novartis is based in Basel, Switzerland.
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A former user of the pain relief medicine Vioxx is suing the drug maker and Wal-Mart in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in circuit court in Hempstead County, Ark.
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Drugs giant Merck & Co. which pulled  its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx from shelves in September, is  about to become the target of hundreds of plaintiffs' lawyers,  the New York Times reported on Friday.
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The main pension fund of New York State filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Merck &amp; Company, accusing it of misleading shareholders about the safety of its arthritis pain drug Vioxx, which has since been withdrawn.
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EDINBURG - A South Texas woman has sued drug maker Merck &amp; Co., alleging that she had to have heart surgery after using the arthritis drug Vioxx.
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The New Jersey decision is a legal victory for Merck, which faces nearly 27,000 individual lawsuits from people claiming the drug Vioxx harmed them.
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TORONTO (CP) - 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.