Merck cleared in personal injury case against Vioxx

Vioxx, the implosion of Merck, and aftershocks at the FDA.

Merck's Actions Surrounding Vioxx

Abdul Moiz Khan The problems of the overwhelming amount of medical literature have been thoughtfully highlighted in the PLoS Medicine editorial “Drowning or Thirsting: The Extremes of Availability of Medical Information” [1]. It is of vital importance to medical professionals that they improve on their skills of sifting through the huge amounts of literature that are made available to them ever...

Medical-care issues that can kill your personal-injury case

involve medical issues, and there are many traps for the unwary, particularly when the quality of the medical care is at issue. Virtually without exception, any injury case with substantial damages will become entangled with medical issues. There will always be issues of how to maximize the economic damages, usually dependent on numerous, sophisticated medical analyses. If medical malfeasance i...

The fallout from Vioxx.

Merck Animal Health

Lancaster R.T., Foxcroft, G.R., Boland, M.R, Edwards, S. and Gordon, I., 1985. Fertility of sows treated with exogenous estradiol and/or gonadotropins to control postweaning estrus. Anim. Reprod. Sci., 8:365-373 In the first of two experiments 28 multiparous sows were allocated to one of the following treatments two days after weaning at approximately 35 days postpartum: (1) untreated; (2) i.m....