Drug Companies Lagging on Openness
January 10, 2005 12:31

Jan. 9--Six months after the drug industry vowed to make its clinical trials more transparent, and three months after launching a common website to give the public "unprecedented access" to studies both good... (Read this Vioxx Article)

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8996 The White House doesn't seem too worried about the medicines we take. Chief of Staff Andrew Card said recently that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is doing a "spectacular"... (Read this Vioxx Article)

Vioxx was one of the most widely used prescription drugs in the world and, for many, it may have been a killer. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to guarantee the safety of the medicines we take, so how could it have disregarded warnings from... (Read this Vioxx Article)

What is Blogwise? Blogwise was started to let people find interesting, relevant blogs quickly and easily. Blogwise was launched October 2002 in a quiet, darkened room in Southern England by a really nice bloke called Sven. It is now growing beyond my initial... (Read this Vioxx Article)

Bush is going to fail at his efforts because he is on the dead wrong side of this issue. He has bought into the mis-information from the insurance industry, and is trying to pit the doctors against the lawyers simply to benefit the insurance companies. The... (Read this Vioxx Article)

More than a week in advance, ATLA and groups working on behalf of medical malpractice and dangerous drug victims, those poisoned by asbestos and defrauded consumers began coordinating efforts to anticipate and respond to President Bush's week-long assault... (Read this Vioxx Article)

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights made public today an internal memo attributed to GOP pollsterFrank Luntzthat outlines the best messages for Republicans to use to sell the American public on "lawsuit abuse reform," based on extensive focus groups.... (Read this Vioxx Article)

You want to know why insurance rates are high... read this. NEW YORK - In the headlines this afternoon, a Marsh & McLennan executive pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to fraud and bid-rigging. Robert Stearns, a senior vice president and 20-year... (Read this Vioxx Article)

Drug Industry Promises to Disclose More Data Move comes in response to concerns about popular medications THURSDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDayNews) -- Pharmaceutical companies around the world have agreed to disclose more data about clinical trials for new and... (Read this Vioxx Article)

Did you know that Businesses File 4 Times as Many Lawsuits as Consumers; Businesses are Almost 70% More Likely to be Sanctioned by Federal Judges for Frivolous Claims or Defenses Than Consumers . That is right 400% more. And it is these same businesses that... (Read this Vioxx Article)

Four Napa County residents are joining a national flood of personal injury lawsuits against drug company Merck & Co., maker of the arthritis drug Vioxx.

Merck pulled Vioxx from the market in September after mounting evidence showed the drug increased users' risk of heart problems. Since then, a growing number of lawsuits have been filed claiming internal company reports show Merck knew there were problems with Vioxx as much as eight years earlier.

The New York law firm of Parker and Waichman, a firm involved in filing Vioxx recall lawsuits in that state, claims in documents it released to the public that Merck officials knew of Vioxx's risks to the heart back in 1996, three years before the drug was approved by the FDA.

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