Launched in 1999, Vioxx was extremely popular (with more than 80 million users worldwide), as its makers heralded the drug as being the answer to inflammation, minus the nausea that often follows with anti-inflammatory medication.
It was later discovered that the New Jersey-based Merck & Co. was knowingly selling a drug that frequently caused heart attacks and strokes in its unsuspecting victims. A study revealed that Vioxx actually doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes, prompting the company to voluntary withdraw the drug from the market in 2004.
Prior to the drug being pulled from the market, several Merck & Co. staff exchanged emails in which they discussed a "hit list" they drafted of doctors whom they believed needed to be "neutralised" or "discredited" due to their criticism of Vioxx.
It seems that Merck & Co. was never held accountable for the threats it made against doctors, researchers and academics, in which at least eight clinical investigators were harassed and intimidated, giving the drug company no reason to stop such intimidation tactics.
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Still goes on today, one reason half of our kids are on some kind of psych drug, and we are on so many pills "for life". How did our ancestors ever get along without Big Pharma?
ReplyDeleteStupid parents.
ReplyDeletethis does still go on today. there are 10 docs that have died under suspicious circumstances in the past 2 years. all of them were working on debunking vaccines. they were trying to expose the dangers of vaccines and all of them had credible evidence that these vaccines should not be trusted. very strange.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention other government scientists and contractors that have died in crazy ways. Almost 200 in 2 years.
DeleteI'm 55 years old and take no meds. I work out eat good and drink beer . No blood pressure issues or anything else. Even if I developed something not talking a damp thing. Oh wait Advil.
ReplyDeleteBen Carson wants to make all these vaccines mandatory. The rise in Birth defects can be attributed to these meds. Along with many other complications.
ReplyDeleteA BIG reason not to vote for Ben Carson.
ReplyDeleteThat and we already learned from Obama.
Delete'..Oh wait Advil...'
ReplyDeleteThere are even some issues with Advil now.
Try Bufferin.. it's back on the market and always worked well for me.
I have yet to find any " credible " evidence to ANY of this !
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