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Medical Science Should Serve People, Not Pharmaceuticals
31 Mar 2025 14:51 GMT
… medical benefits, however, when profit becomes the driving force, priorities shift.
Pharmaceutical … , non-patentable treatments or preventive care … drug.
Some well-known examples are Merck’s Vioxx, … of antidepressant trials, “the 21 positive trials produced …
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Merck Charged With Hiding Crippling Side Effects of Highly Profitable Cancer Vax
28 Jan 2025 19:21 GMT
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Merck Charged With Hiding Crippling … s number 2 drugmaker is facing a jury trial after being … settlement to victims of Vioxx, an inflammatory drug found to cause … -rein-in-drug-makers-big-food-and-the-fda-1120899370.html …
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Merck’s $8 Billion Cancer Vaccine Faces First US Jury Trial
27 Jan 2025 16:54 GMT
Merck & Co. is facing its first jury trial over … stakes litigation for the pharmaceutical giant.
Lawyers for a … Merck’s Gardasil marketing campaign failed to warn consumers and their doctors … drug Vioxx caused heart attacks and strokes. Last year, Merck …
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Listen up: Healio Rheuminations explored medical histories and mysteries in 2024
26 Dec 2024 12:01 GMT
… as he explores the medical history behind rheumatic diseases … of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). And in a … DO, Healio Rheumatology’s chief medical editor, Calabrese provided a debrief … the rise and fall of VIOXX teach us about physiology? …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to ban drug ads on TV. It wouldn’t be easy.
23 Dec 2024 18:00 GMT
… Amendment, the FDA relaxed its rules, allowing drug advertisers to … Merck’s TV ads helped make the painkiller Vioxx a … drugs that have transformed the treatment of obesity.
The pharmaceutical … drug ads, he could find allies among doctors. The American Medical …
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How Pharmaceutical Lawsuits Affect Stock Markets and Investment Decisions
11 Dec 2024 00:41 GMT
… has been developed as a treatment for opioid addiction, the … This was after the FDA had published information on the … For instance, Merck’s legal battle over their drug Vioxx cost the … of the ripple effects of pharmaceutical lawsuits, balancing risks with …
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The Trouble with Trump’s Pick to Run the FDA
04 Dec 2024 11:49 GMT
… of medical mistakes: the pharmaceutical and medical device industries … better-known Vioxx case, where Merck heavily … trial.
The FDA warning states women taking an estrogen/progestin combination drug … reported health habits, treatments, and outcomes …
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A scientist’s final quest is to find new schizophrenia drugs
27 Nov 2024 14:12 GMT
… rollout of Merck’s pain reliever Vioxx in 1999. … doctors by chance stumbled upon drugs that evolved into treatments for mental illness. Medicines … and learned that Takeda Pharmaceutical had developed and … economics department of a biotech firm. Before taking …
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An Open Good Riddance Letter to FDA Commissioner Califf
28 Nov 2024 00:42 GMT
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While most doctors and government officials at … the pharmaceutical industry," you told PBS after the Vioxx … Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
"Dr … Johnson & Johnson, Scios, Merck/Schering-Plough, Schering-Plough …
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The Danish National Hospital Medication Register: A Resource for Pharmacoepidemiology
13 Nov 2024 23:04 GMT
… phase 3 trials, achieved by examining medication use … , such as price, pharmaceutical form, strength, and … medication history being left truncated for selected treatments … Drug withdrawals and the utilization of therapeutic substitutes: the case of Vioxx …