since about 7000 people die every year from taking aspirin, we should take that off the market too... right???
Posted on 11/03/2005 7:38:42 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- In a major victory for Merck & Co., a jury has found the drugmaker properly warned consumers about Vioxx risks. The finding means Merck will not be held liable for the 2001 heart attack suffered by a man taking the painkiller.
The problem is not with doctors who did not monitor the problem, it is with patients who do not tell their doctors about side effects or adverse reactions from a drug.
Just answer the question: what was his dossage? Vioxx was WELL documented to have a problem at large dossages, my wife was on it I've read the documentation, was he over the line or wasn't he. The juries should be smart enough to see through ALL the cases because ALL the cases are bunk, the warnings were there, if the person's doctor didn't pay enough attention then the person (or their survivors) should sue the doctor not the drug manufacturer.
I suppose anything is possible but 85% of our cases are people under the age of 55, try explaining all these people having strokes while they all were on Vioxx. 30% of our case are -or had their stroke/heart attack- in their 40's. Is this typical? I submit all these people had one thing in common the misfortune of taking Vioxx.
This leaves just the doctors who prescribed the medications as liable. Still a lawsuit target, just not so deep pockets.
I work in the software industry, we average having a heart attack by 38. Young people have heart attacks too.
I am not going to 'bleed' this persons file on a thread or anywhere else. Our cases will be well documented, we are well known -hopefully respected- (Ford Pinto as a hint). Depending on settlements some may choose to keep their names annonymous. What is unsettling is this blind allegiance to a drug company,simply because it is the 'conservative way' to be.
And I submit they had one more commonality as well - they heard they could make a fortune by filing a case against Vioxx. Before ANY Cox-2's came on the market there were heart attacks and strokes in the population under 55 all the time. Perhaps it wasn't the most common cause of death in that age group, but it wasn't that far down the list. I worked at a university hospital in the 70s and we had lots of patients under 55 with assorted cardiovascular and cerebrovascular conditions.
I now do transcription, and probably 15% of the notes I type are patients in that younger age group who have assorted vascular disorders, high lipids, high blood pressure, etc., etc., none of whom have been "lucky" enough to be able to blame Vioxx. With 270 million or so population, I don't doubt your find a lot of people who want to jump on the sue-Vioxx bandwagon.
Perhaps, but when my doctor had me taking a cholesterol-lowering drug, I reported side effects of muscle pain, etc. and he said "that's not from the drug" and wanted me to continue. I stopped taking them on my own, against his wishes, with absolutely no change in my cholesterol levels! A year or two later, patients were dying from these statin drugs. Now they take the side effect reports more seriously.
I guess working for the postal service well qualifies one to make such judgements.
What a freaking dolt. He should have his pension taken to pay for for bringing such a lame action.
good news
WOOHOO!!
Those EEEEEVILLLL drug companies! It's time for an appeal, an appeal I say!
since about 7000 people die every year from taking aspirin, we should take that off the market too... right???
There's no blind allegiance here to anything but the FACTS. The FACTS are that the risks of Vioxx were well documented by Vioxx and the FDA, and should have been well known by prescribing doctors and patients that read the documentation should have recognized the warning signs and informed their doctor that they were having a reaction. All drugs can be dangerous, people who don't know what they're sticking in their mouth and don't pay attention to their bodies reaction are putting themselves at risk. And the fact that you need to start insulting people just shows how much even you know the facts aren't on your side.
Yep. And to put a finer point on it—LIVING carries a risk.
Good. End the frivolous and illegal lawsuits.
Multi Billion dollar profits?
The study which caused Merck to pull Vioxx only indicated a 7.5% increase in heart attacks. So you are going to tell me that vioxx is the main cause of the heart attack in everyone who had a heart attack while taking vioxx. Somehow your facts dont add up.
My HMO doctors will not even talk to me about using Celebrex.
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