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After costly mistakes in a Texas courtroom and an astonishing defeat in the first Vioxx trial, Merck & Co. faces round two next week in New Jersey.
Defending the company in a lawsuit filed by a 60-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffered a nonfatal heart attack two months after he began taking Vioxx, Merck lawyers again will try to explain to a jury why Merck shouldn't be held liable for heart problems and strokes among consumers who took the painkiller.
Inclusion of unpublished data on the effects of antidepressants on children has suggested unfavourable risk-benefit profiles for some of the drugs. Recent meta-analyses of studies on adults have indicated similar effects. We obtained unpublished data for paroxetine that have so far not been included in these analyses.
WSJ, June 3, 2004: Spitzer Charges Glaxo Concealed Paxil Data
Mr. Spitzer Wednesday filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court accusing British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC of "repeated and persistent fraud" for concealing problematic issues of efficacy and safety when children use the company's blockbuster drug Paxil for treating depression.
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