Vioxx Study Links Drug to Over 140,000 Heart Attacks
The arthritis drug Vioxx may have caused up to 140,000 excess cases of serious heart disease in the U.S.-- many potentially fatal -- by the time Merck & Co. withdrew it from the market. This is... Read more »
Merck Cancelled Early Vioxx Study
Merck & Co. withdrew Vioxx from the market in September 2004 after study results showed the painkiller doubled patients' risk of heart attack and stroke. But could Merck have uncovered Vioxx's ill effects earlier? The answer, according to previously undisclosed... Read more »
Zoloft and antidepressants implicated in adolescent suicides and other violence
Zoloft and other antidepressants may cause suicidal behavior in about two out of 100 children and teenagers taking the pills, according to studies reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The link between SSRI... Read more »
Neurontin linked to suicide cases
Neurontin, a prescription drug, is FDA-approved to help treat epilepsy and shingles pain. However, 90 percent of Neurontin prescriptions are for off-label uses such as treatment of bipolar disorder and a variety of pain syndromes. A growing number of lawsuits focus on an... Read more »
Lotronex Lawsuit Among the First Filed
On December 21, 2000, the law firms of Edgar Snyder & Associates in Pittsburgh, and Sheller, Ludwig & Beatty in Philadelphia, filed suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County, Pennsylvania on behalf of the firms' client and her husband,... Read more »
