ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Elaine Doherty was the typical patient to whom drug maker Merck &; Co. marketed its former blockbuster painkiller Vioxx: a senior citizen with arthritis and other ailments ...

RIO GRANDE CITY — A $7.75 million jury award over the Merck & Co. drug Vioxx will stand after a judge let the company's request for a new trial expire. Merck made the request after learning that ...

WASHINGTON -- What Merck &; Co. calls good salesmanship -- emphasizing the positive in selling the painkiller Vioxx -- a Democratic congressman says is disinformation designed to deflect safety ...

Merck & Co. withdrew the popular drug Vioxx from the market in September, after data from a clinical trial supported claims the medication was associated with an increased risk of heart attack and ...

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The backlash after the withdrawal of the arthritis drug Vioxx is in full swing. Critics of the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) effort to modernize the drug ...

ANGLETON - Lawyers presented two different views of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc., in opening arguments today in the country's first trial involving the once popular painkiller Vioxx. David ...

The makers of Vioxx should pay $9 million in punitive damages to an elderly man who had a heart attack while taking the painkiller, a New Jersey jury has decided. Last week, the jury awarded the man ...

Wharton, TX -- A judge on Tuesday declined to postpone jury selection in the nation's first state-level wrongful death trial related to the painkiller Vioxx because he said he would not assume ...

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The plaintiff in the first federal lawsuit against Merck, makers of the painkiller Vioxx, took the stand Monday in Houston. Evelyn Irvin Plunkett told jurors that her 53-year-old husband, Richard ...

A settlement calling for Merck & Co. to pay $830 million to investors in multidistrict litigation over the painkiller Vioxx and another $232 million in legal fees received preliminary approval Feb. 11 ...