April 16, 2008Late TodayPosts will be late today. I got so chilled at the Mariners game yesterday and was so tired when I got home that I passed out, missed dinner, and had to go out for a late meal. And I still never warmed up. That was the single coldest baseball game I have been to in my life (42 degrees with a nice brisk wind on top of that) and I stayed until the bitter end. Like a fool. And now I am going to go get about eight hours sleep. Until I catch up with you all later, please read all the news that's going round about Vioxx and Merck. Ghostwritten studies. Knowledge of the drug's dangers well in advance of Merck pulling it from the market in 2004. Everything I and many others have been saying about the psych med world for years only this time with a painkiller. In a nice twist, the second of the NEJM papers was authored by some researchers here in Seattle. I bet this Vioxx business gets more attention than Zyprexa ever did. I think the two cases are deeply connected and similar--two big companies creating a drug that allegedly helped people when it was really a public health problem in a pill. As Montel Williams likes to say on TV, "America's pharmaceutical research companies want to help." Posted by Philip Dawdy at April 16, 2008 12:21 AM
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Merck is in some hot water right now. A few weeks ago, their lead investigator said that the company hid reports that Zetia didnt work so that it could make billions of dollars before it was pulled from the shelves. Now the vioxx cover up. And lets not forget Baxter's debut this month with the contaminated heparin. Whether its psych meds or pain pills, the drug companies have a common policy of "make money, ask questions later". Posted by: Amber at April 16, 2008 08:30 PMPost a comment
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