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Get A Refund If You Took Vytorin Or Zetia
If you or someone you know were prescribed the high cholesterol drugs Zetia or Vytorin and paid full price or a co-pay, you may be eligible for a refund as part of a recent class-action lawsuit. Manufacturers Merck and Schering-Plough are accused of violating consumer protection laws. While both drugs were marketed as superior to other, cheaper statins on the market, more recent studies showed that the drugs weren't significantly more effective than the older drugs, and could have more harmful side effects. More » -
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Merck Ghostwrote Vioxx Studies For Doctors
Newly unearthed documents may reveal that Merck Pharmaceuticals ghostwrote dozens of Vioxx studies and then paid well-known doctors to put their name on them as if they wrote them, according to a new article to be published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In one instance, a draft version of an article to be published listed the lead author as "External author?" Dr. Steven H. Ferris, one of the doctors whose research was questioned, call the article "simply false", its allegations "egregious." Let's see what the JAMA article has to say about the study Ferris supposedly worked on:
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Merck Settles Vioxx Lawsuits For $4.85 Billion
Merck has announced that it has agreed to settle the majority of the 60,000 Vioxx-related individual claims against it. More » -
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Merck's Vioxx Replacement Still A Heart Risk
Merck's getting in on the arthritis market again with a new drug, called Arcoxia. You might remember their previous offering, Vioxx, which was discontinued two years ago after octogenarians countrywide lifted their contorted, claw-like hands to a withered chest and let out a rattling gasp under the influence of a massive, Vioxx-induced heart attack. Lawsuits abounded. More » -
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The News; High Interest Charged For Lending Of Ears
• Isn't the real solution just to stop making more children? [NYT] "Congress Identifies Pornography Purchasers" More » -
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All The News That's Fit To Self-Immolate
• Grocers hate it when their loss leaders have no followers. [NYT] "Sale Shoppers Annoy Grocers as They Save" More » -
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The News; Bury My Lump of Coal Under the Old Apple Tree
• Saying it was due to a broken heart would require he had one in the first place. [NYT] "Kenneth L. Lay, Ex-Chairman of Enron, Dies" More » -
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MERCK Gets Mercked for $9 Million in Vioxx Suit
A jury awarded $9 million in punitive damages to John Darby who blamed his heart attacks on Vioxx. The sum is a defeat for drug-maker Merck, which, for some fucking reason, was assumed to be "bulletproof" because the trial took place in New Jersey. More »
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