New Legal Setbacks for Merck in Vioxx Trials
A federal jury has awarded $51 million to 62-year old Gerald Barnett, a former FBI agent who suffered a heart attack in 2002. Jurors in New Orleans found that Merck & Co. "knowingly misrepresented or failed to disclose" information about Vioxx to Barnett's doctor, who said that if Merck had disclosed the risks associated with Vioxx earlier, he would not have prescribed it for his patient. Mr. Barnett took Vioxx for a total of 33 months, and reportedly kept taking it after his heart attack, until a few weeks before it was pulled from the market in September 2004.
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