health risks

According to an article on Philly.com, a $4.85 billion fund was set up so that Merck & Co. Inc. can compensate kin of those who died of heart attacks or strokes. The claims are from the families of more than 3,100 users of its Vioxx painkiller who died of heart attacks or strokes because of the drug. The fund will pay about 3,000 claims for heart-attack deaths and at least 122 for strokes. Merck launched Vioxx i [...]

According to an article on Philly.com, a $4.85 billion fund was set up so that Merck & Co. Inc. can compensate kin of those who died of heart attacks or strokes. The claims are from the families of more than 3,100 users of its Vioxx painkiller who died of heart attacks or strokes because of the drug. The fund will pay about 3,000 claims for heart-attack deaths and at least 122 for strokes. Merck launched Vioxx i [...]

The government is investigating if heart attack survivors enrolled in a controversial federal study of an alternative treatment were told about possible health risks. According to this article, the $30 million study with 1,500 participants, is one of the largest alternative medicine experiments. It tests high doses of vitamin and mineral supplements and chelation, a treatment used for lead poisoning. It has not be [...]