Vioxx Quotes

a study of patient insurance records (showed) that Vioxx users had a 50 percent greater chance of heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths.

What the e-mail referred to is that if you compare Vioxx to a traditional pain reliever, you`ll see a difference in clotting events. What he meant was that a misinterpretation of that difference would kill the drug, ... That e-mail was speculating that people would misinterpret it (the trial) as being a problem with Vioxx.

There is no medical or scientific evidence that Vioxx contributed to Mr. Humeston`s heart attack.

The evidence will show that Mr. Humeston`s myocardial infarction didn`t have anything to do with Vioxx,

The clinical study Merck conducted that lead it to voluntarily withdraw the drug only revealed an increased risk after 18 months of daily use. Mr. Humeston only took Vioxx intermittently for less than two months. The science just isn`t there to support his claim.

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.