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June 16, 2009

Kochie hosted Vioxx video for GPs

SEVEN Network presenter David Koch hosted an education program for GPs produced by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co.

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FDA panel recommends return of Vioxx, with 'black box' warning

WASHINGTON -- A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted Friday to let doctors prescribe COX-2 painkillers, including Celebrex and Vioxx, but recommended stronger warnings about the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Click here for more info

First trial against Vioxx starts in Texas

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A lawsuit against Merck & Co.'s Vioxx goes to trial in a Texas state court on Monday in the first of thousands of cases claiming the pharmaceutical giant hid the risks of a popular painkiller.

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Another Vioxx jury sides with Merck

New Jersey pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. persuaded a New Orleans federal court jury Wednesday that Vioxx, a painkiller it took off the market two years ago after studies linked it to heart attacks and strokes, did not cause the 2003 heart attack of a Tennessee man who had taken the medicine for six months for arthritis pain.

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