140000 Americans injured by Vioxx
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The arthritis drug Vioxx could have caused an estimated 88,000?140,000 excess cases of serious coronary heart disease in the US since its launch in 1999, concludes a study published online by The Lancet. We had reported this earlier as well when Dr. David Graham, in an interview with the Financial Times, had mentioned that he was revising his Vioxx injury estimate upwards. (Related article: Merck shows no sympathy for Vioxx victims) Dr. Graham, an expert at the FDA, and his team analyzed data f ... (more)
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