Wednesday, June 01, 2005

E-mails Suggest Merck May Have Known of Vioxx's Risks: Report

"Did Merck officials know about the heart risks posed by its now-defunct painkilling drug Vioxx as far back as five years ago?

"The New York Times reported Sunday that in 2000, Merck overruled one of its own scientists after he suggested that a 73-year-old female patient in a Vioxx clinical trial had probably died of a heart attack." [KLASTV.com]