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8 Apr 2022, 11:35 am by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.
Gardasil was developed by the embattled pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 5:11 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, commenting on the high level of layoffs in July 2011, including at Merck & Co., Borders, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin and Boston Scientific: "A casual observer certainly might conclude that the wheels just fell off the recovery wagon"Of Merck, the company had announced on Friday, July 29 that it will eliminate 13,000 of its 91,000 employees worldwide by 2015. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 9:08 am
 Merck & Co. announced that it agreed to pay about $4.85 billion to settle a significant portion of the claims over injuries allegedly linked to its Vioxx painkiller after insisting for years that it would fight all 27,000 cases filed rather than compromise. [read post]
16 Aug 2009, 9:21 pm
Plaintiffs in about 900 cases claim that Merck & Co. failed to warn that the drug may cause the death of jawbone tissue. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 4:37 pm
A federal jury wants Merck & Co. to pay $285,000 in the drug injury case filed by a plaintiff who contends that the manufacturer did not warn her doctors about the risks involved with taking Fosamax. [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 1:15 pm by Joseph Allen
The lead story in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal made an exciting announcement: “Merck Covid-19 Pill Cuts Risks of Hospitalizations and Death”: "Merck & Co. and its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP said their experimental Covid-19 pill helped prevent high-risk people early in the course of the disease in a pivotal study from becoming seriously ill and dying, a big step toward providing the pandemic’s first easy-to-use, at home… [read post]
30 Nov 2005, 8:33 pm
A lawyer representing a widow who claims that Merck & Co.'s Vioxx caused her husband's death argued on Tuesday that taking the pain reliever for one month was enough to cause the 53-year-old man's heart attack. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 3:52 am by John Rizvi
       Merck & Co, Inc., in collaboration with Arena Pharmaceuticals, is taking a patent pending drug into Phase One of a clinical trial (PharmaLive, January 25, 2008). [read post]
20 May 2008, 4:23 pm
Merck & Co.'s troubles with Vioxx will cost it $5.3 million in the Golden State. [read post]
27 Oct 2006, 3:36 pm
Two items from around the web: (1) The Wall Street Journal has an article (subscrip. req'd) today on efforts by Bernstein Litowitz to remove Milberg Weiss as co-lead counsel and re-open the lead plaintiff/lead counsel selection process in the Merck... [read post]
1 May 2007, 8:13 pm
Noonan -- In just the latest in a series of developments unwelcomed by Western drug companies, Brasil has threatened to distribute a generic version of Merck Co.'s anti-AIDS drug efavirenz (Stocrin ®). [read post]
26 May 2009, 10:02 am
The Supreme Court accepted cert in a securities fraud action from the Third Circuit today, In re Merck & Co. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 12:00 pm
A Texas intermediate appeals court has vacated its May 14 decision, which had dismissed a $7.75 million judgment against Merck & Co. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 7:19 am
Reuters: FDA grants fast review of Gardasil for adult women (3/19): Merck & Co on Wednesday said U.S. regulators have granted a priority review for the company's application to expand marketing of its Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine to women aged... [read post]