Archive for January, 2008

Merck posted a $1.63 billion fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday as charges for its Vioxx litigation settlement dragged down results and share prices.

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Hundreds of Florida residents who claim the painkiller Vioxx caused their strokes or heart attacks were squeezed out of a federal-court settlement and should be included, their lawyers say.

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TRENTON, N.J.– Merck & Co. posted a $1.63 billion (U.S.) fourth-quarter loss yesterday as whopping charges, mainly for its Vioxx litigation settlement, dragged down results – and share prices.

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Seattle Times - Drug giant Merck posted a $1.63 billion fourth-quarter loss Wednesday as a whopping charge for its Vioxx litigation settlement dragged down results. The maker of allergy and asthma pill Singulair and osteoporosis treatment Fosamax said the net loss …

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Philadelphia Inquirer - Merck & Co. Inc. yesterday announced a fourth-quarter loss of $1.63 billion, or 75 cents a share. The results were weighed down by logging $4.85 billion to settle lawsuits for the company’s withdrawn pain reliever Vioxx. Without Vioxx and other …

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Chicago Tribune - The bulk was for litigation involving Vioxx, the painkiller it pulled from the market because it increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Revenue edged up 3 percent, $6.24 billion. Sales jumped 20 percent for Singulair, to $1.15 billion, but edged …

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Minneapolis Star Tribune - I AM LEGEND (5721) Will Smith stars as the last man standing in a Manhattan depopulated by a medical experiment with worse side effects than Vioxx. ??? (C.C.) 100 mins. PG-13, intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence. INTO THE WILD (5623) The …

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Detroit News - From Prilosec to Prozac, Vioxx to Zyvox, the report fingers 1,470 drugs implicated in 26,000 medication errors in 2006 due to drugs having brand and/or generic names that look or sound similar. Most of the time, the errors didn’t result in any real …

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Merck posted a $1.63 billion fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday as charges for its Vioxx litigation settlement dragged down results and share prices.

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The company reported a $1.63 billion loss in the fourth quarter as whopping charges for its Vioxx litigation settlement and other items dragged down results.

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