ANGLETON, Texas (AP) - A cardiologist testifying Friday ruled out Vioxx as the cause of a Texas man’s death who took the once-popular painkiller for eight months, citing the lack of evidence of a heart attack or blood clot in the autopsy.Dr. Craig Pratt, director of research at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center in Houston, said the autopsy of 59-year-old Robert Ernst “speaks for itself,”
Jury clears Vioxx maker in Utahn's heart attack
Posted: 2:22 PM- NEW ORLEANS - A federal jury on Wednesday cleared Merck & Co. in the July 2003 heart attack suffered by a Utah bank credit manager who had taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx for 10- months. Charles Laron "Ron" Mason, 64, of Salt Lake County, began taking Vioxx after years of taking anti-inflammatory drugs because of back pain. The case was the 11th to be tried
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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. Opening statements are slated to continue today in Madison County, where jurors are hearing a lawsuit filed over the arthritis medicine called Vioxx.
New Cdn class action suit launched against maker of arthritis drug Vioxx
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) - Two New Brunswick lawyers are preparing to join a series of class-action lawsuits against Merck & Co., the pharmaceutical giant that pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx from the market last September.
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