Feb
20
When you think of big drug companies, what image comes to mind? Is it an image of a company that is out to save the world by curing all of the horrible diseases? I don’t think that is the picture that most of us would paint. I think that most of us probably see these companies as examples of corporate greed. These companies make billions and billions of dollars off of their products. And usually if you can not afford their medications then you simply do not have access to the cure.
Well one of these drug companies is a little different in my opinion. Back in the late 1990s a company called Merck gained FDA approval for a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug called Vioxx. This drug was prescribed to millions of arthritis patients worldwide with wonderful results. Unfortunately as the years passed it was realized that this drug may be contributing to heart attacks and strokes.
Did Merck wait for the FDA to step in and do something? No they didn’t! Despite the fact that taking this drug off of the market voluntarily would cost them millions of dollars in profits, they chose to do the right thing. Vioxx was taken off of pharmacy shelves in late 2004 because the executives at the pharmaceutical company that sold it decided to do the right thing.
Jan
25
He Used to be Successful
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My husband and I met years ago when he was still in law school in upstate New York. He reminded me of a young BIll Clinton: very passionate, caring, and very good with people. People were drawn to him like a magnet.
He was lucky enough that right out of law school, he was a part of a firm that dealt with all of the Vioxx litigation. I don’t know much about the history except from what I understand, it was an effective medicine with horrible side effects. I guess. Anyway, he became one of the more prominent New Yor Vioxx lawyers and was in very high demand.
Over the years however, as the suits have settled, his work has slowed down significantly and he’s really starting to feel it. Actually, we’re all really starting to feel it.
His reputation was based on being the top New York Vioxx lawyer in town, and now that people are focusing on other things, its like he and his firm don’t exist anymore. Isn’t that silly? Like they only understand the law as it applies to Vioxx. Crazy, but they’re not laying people off to adjust for the downturn, and he’s on the short list, I fear.
Dec
25
Anyone received a letter about a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical for use of Zantac and Vioxx?
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Jul
12
Vioxx, What is Rofecoxib? Why it is banned?
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Does it act around an illegal drug? I möchte that legal assistance regarding drugs. Which you give me suitable left
Jun
16
Does the Vioxx Settlement bother you?
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Only ask, does how many other Vioxx Kläger have doubts regarding the suggested Vioxx Settlement? A Yahoo discussion group with the name & quot; Merck Settlement& quot; (Non–lawyers, f
Apr
12
Our family has a lawsuit pending in the New York courts over the drug Vioxx. When are the courts starting h?
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Mar
27
I have two that have received me almost ten years ago in County Weschester, the Supreme Court of NY. These amount to over $ 6000. All persons who are currently against the SSD is collecting, collect funds from the recent establishment of the Merck-Vioxx, as well as $ 3,000 a retired railway month, to begin next year.
Feb
26
Why does the FDA approve drugs like vioxx,recall them after people become ill from them ?
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Why? were approved in the first place? There? Always a "chaser" dell'ambulanza; lawyer with the melodramatic commecials regarding this.