Vioxx class action claim refused
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A US judge refuses a request to combine thousands of lawsuits involving the painkiller Vioxx into a class action.
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Merck &amp; Co. officials said Tuesday they intend to defend aggressively their handling of the painkiller Vioxx against claims by patients who say they were harmed by the now-withdrawn drug.
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Merck failed to warn doctors about the risks of its painkiller Vioxx and must pay a retired FBI agent $50 million to compensate for the heart attack he suffered after taking the drug, a federal jury found Thursday.
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EDINBURG - A South Texas woman has sued drug maker Merck &amp; Co., alleging that she had to have heart surgery after using the arthritis drug Vioxx.
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused on  Monday to review the class-action status for a lawsuit on  behalf of more than 600,000 doctors claiming six managed-care  companies violated federal racketeering law by regularly  underpaying them for medical services.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit alleging two pharmaceutical companies conspired to monopolize the market for a drug used to treat breast cancer.
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HMOs will face a steeper price tag to settle a class action suit by doctors claiming they were shortchanged payment, after a court denied the industry's bid to block the lawsuit, analysts said on Thursday.
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Thousands of federal lawsuits claiming the drug Vioxx caused heart attacks and other conditions that killed or injured people cannot be pooled into one national class action, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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TORONTO -- Law firms in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary filed more class-action lawsuits yesterday against Merck and Co. Inc., the makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx.
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The Food and Drug Administration insists that until pharmaceutical giant Merck presented new information this week, there was not enough evidence to pull the arthritis drug Vioxx off the market.
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The inevitable lawsuits over arthritis drug Vioxx have begun, the first coming just a day after the drug was withdrawn from use last week.
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Merck, the maker of the arthritis drug Vioxx is facing a nationwide legal assault as lawyers representing thousands of people injured or killed by the painkiller meet next week to set the groundwork for a massive action against the drug maker.
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Both the city and state of New York sue Merck over Vioxx payments
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety  official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled  from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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The US Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official&#39;s findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Thousands of federal lawsuits claiming the drug Vioxx caused heart attacks and other conditions that killed or injured people cannot be pooled into one national class action, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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SHANGHAI, China  - Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug company, said Tuesday that it has filed an appeal in a Beijing court against a government decision rejecting the company's Chinese patent for its erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra.