Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Vioxx caused heart attack right away!

The Wall Street Journal has the story.

This is not news the brilliant defense lawyer Diane Sullivan would like. For some reason her law firm has taken a great interest in this blog lately. Did they anticipate the news getting out?

I'm just wondering.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Some seventeen years ago I was prescribed medication for hypertension/heart failure. I noticed right away that it was dangerous. I had strange and painful side effects. My doctor, however, insisted that I keep taking it. To get off that drug required a doctor's supervision. I could not take it and did it on my own, as the doctor would not cooperate. Years later that drug proved to be dangerous. I wonder how many more people had effects like I had, plus the same experiences with their doctors? One semester, or is it two now, of outdated pharmacology does not make a doctor qualified to judge newer drugs, nor experienced enough. There must be another kind of setup, with MDPhD's (in pharmacology) assigned to clinics, etc.