http://www.druglawsuits.info Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:51:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 A 5 woman, 7 man jury returned a verdict on the first Vioxx lawsuit Friday after deliberating for 10 1/2 hours over a two day period. The Texas jury found Merck liable for the death of Robert Ernst, who took Merck's painkiller, Vioxx. This is the first of ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=47 A 5 woman, 7 man returned a verdit Friday in the after deliberating for 10 1/2 hours over a two day period. The Texas jury found Merck liable for the death of Robert Ernst, who took Merck's painkiller, Vioxx. This is the first of thousand of pending lawsuits throughout ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=46 Lawyers from both sides of the first Vioxx civil trial in the country deposed Dr. Maria Araneta, the coroner that autopsied Robert Ernst, who died eight months after the start of taking Vioxx. He died as a result of an irregular heartbeat . Dr. Araneta is a ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=45 The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit under the state's Medicaid fraud act against Merck & Co. to recover money spent for participants of state Medicaid on Vioxx. Pharmacies in Texas were reimbursed for about $56 million from May 1999 through September 2004 for Vioxx, when Merck stopped ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=44 Head of Merck's department of epidemiology, Nancy Santanello, is in for a rough week. Mark Lanier, the plaintiff's lawyer, has his eye on her as the first witness. He had tried to get her onto the witness stand last week after hours of opening statements from him and Merck lawyer ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=43 A five women, seven men jury was seated on Wednesday for the first Vioxx trial in the nation in Angleton, Texas, near Houston. Several people were not chosen due to ties to Vioxx, including two doctors and people who have taken Vioxx or who's relatives have. Statements began on ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=42 Almost four months after U.S. officials seized the antidepressant drug Paxil CR from three GlaxoSmithKline facilities for failing to meet manufacturing standards, it is back on the market. The FDA discovered that Paxil CR tablets could be split apart, possibly leaving portions without the control release or active ingredient. The problems at ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=41 The first federal Vioxx lawsuits against drug company Merck could happen in the late fall of this year, according to a group of lawyers gathered in New Orleans. As of June 15, there have been approximately 3,500 Vioxx Lawsuits filed against Merck in federal and state courts. The first federal trials will ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=40 Eli Lilly & Co. has agreed to settle legal claims totalling almost $700 million. The claims are based on the fact that labels on its anti-psychosis drug Zyprexa had failed to provide adequate warning that the drug and could put patients more at risk of developing diabetes. When final, the ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=39 The FDA is looking into about 40 reported cases of men going blind after using Viagra, CBS reported Friday. A neuro ophthalmologist at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Howard Pomeranz, appears to be the first doctor to have made a connection in one of his patients in 1998. He said ... http://www.druglawsuits.info/index.php?p=38