Merck withdraws arthritis drug worldwide

Worldwide drug withdrawal puts FDA under scrutiny Merck faces 300 lawsuits Karen

Vioxx is a cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 selective, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that was approved by the USA’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May 1999 for the relief of the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis, the management of acute pain in adults, and the treatment of menstrual symptoms. Vioxx was later also approved for the relief of signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthrit...

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....

Worldwide Emergence of Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains that are resistant to an increasing number of second-line drugs used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) are becoming a threat to public health worldwide. We surveyed the Network of Supranational Reference Laboratories for M. tuberculosis isolates that were resistant to second-line anti-TB drugs during 2000-2004. We defined extensively drug-resi...

ATS Merck CME Newsletter

Charles M. Balch, MD, Professor of Surgery, Oncology and Dermatology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, reviewed the current version of the melanoma staging as well as new data on staging and prognosis contained in the 2008 version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Melanoma Staging Schema. The final version of the melanoma staging criteria are embargoed until May 2009 and implem...

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