Australian court finds drug Vioxx doubled heart attack risk, awards man $259,000 in damages The once-popular painkiller Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and was unfit for consumption, an Australian court ruled Friday, awarding a man leading a class action suit ...
An Australian judge on Friday found arthritis drug Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attacks and was not fit for sale, opening the way for hundreds of lawsuits against US pharmaceutical giant Merck. Federal Court judge Christopher Jessop awarded 287,000 dollars (259,000 ...
Summary Box: Merck pays last $4.1B for Vioxx patient settlements, some other suits continue VIOXX UPDATE: Drugmaker Merck & Co. paid the final $4.1 billion into its $4.85 billion fund to settle roughly 10,000 U.S. claims that withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused heart ...
FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2004 file photo, Vioxx is arranged on a counting tray, laying on top of the bottle, at The Pennington Apothecary in Pennington, N.J. Drugmaker Merck & Co. said Monday, March 1, 2010, it's finished paying $4.85 ...
Merck: Last Vioxx payouts coming soon from $4.85B fund to settle heart attack, stroke lawsuits Drugmaker Merck & Co. has made its final, $4.1 billion payment into a fund to settle tens of thousands of U.S. claims that withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused ...
<div><p>The arthritis drug Vioxx nearly doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke compared to no treatment at all, according to a long-term follow-up study released Tuesday.</p><p>But the risk virtually disappeared, the study found, a year after patients stopped taking the once ...
<div><p>A doubled risk of heart attack, stroke and death persisted at least a year after people stopped taking withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, according to an analysis of long-term data from the study that led drugmaker Merck & Co. to stop selling the drug.</p><p>The ...
<div id="subtitle">Pfizer gets relief with $894 million deal to end lawsuits over painkillers Bextra, Celebrex</div><div><p>Drug giant Pfizer Inc. has reached an $894 million deal to settle the bulk of the lawsuits over its withdrawn pain reliever Bextra, following the lead of rival ...
<div id="subtitle">California judge rejects proposed class action suit for residents, insurers who paid for Vioxx</div><div><p>A California state judge has rejected a proposed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of state residents who took the painkiller Vioxx before it was pulled from the market ...
<div id="subtitle">Supreme Court to consider whether to allow Vioxx lawsuits</div><div><p>The Supreme Court will decide whether shareholders can sue pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. because of the failure of its former blockbuster painkiller Vioxx.</p><p>The high court agreed Tuesday to ...
