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The Ibuprofen Alternative That's Better For Your Stomach (But You Need A Prescription For It)A 2011 study in The BMJ compared the safety of these pain relievers and found that rofecoxib, a COX-2 inhibitor also known as Vioxx, had posed more than double the risk of a heart attack compared ...
Merck immediately said it would appeal the decision. It withdrew the $2.5 billion-a-year drug after it found that the use of Vioxx for more than 18 months doubled the risk of stroke and heart attack.
About 2 million people, mostly elderly arthritis sufferers, were then taking Vioxx. Since the first Vioxx trial in July 2005, Merck attorneys have stressed each plaintiff’s risk factors for a ...
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