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56. Merck to Pay $950 Million Over Vioxx

Mon Feb 2, 2015, 12:20 AM

Feb 2015

Keeping posting your dumb shit. I'll post something like this in reply. There's plenty more where this comes from.

Merck has agreed to pay $950 million and has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge over the marketing and sales of the painkiller Vioxx, the company and the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The negotiated settlement, which includes resolution of civil cases, was the latest of a series of fraud cases brought by federal and state prosecutors against major pharmaceutical companies.

By the time Vioxx, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999, was pulled off the market in 2004 because evidence showed that it posed a substantial heart risk, about 25 million Americans had taken the drug.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/business/merck-agrees-to-pay-950-million-in-vioxx-case.html?_r=0

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Merck to Pay $950 Million Over Vioxx whereisjustice Feb 2015 #56

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