Tag - Merck

Stacking the deck

No doubt you’ve been reading the devastating press about vitamins being useless in the treatment of heart disease. Before you throw your bottles in the bin (or before the EU does that for you), it is worth sifting through the details,

Vioxx redux

Hard on the heels of the COX-2 debacle, the US Food and Drug Administration, which somehow seems to have developed a conscience, has recently issued a Public Health Advisory targeting all non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as worthy of...

Drugs for arthritis

If you thought Vioxx was bad, Bextra could be even worse. Things are unravelling quickly for the COX-2 inhibitor painkillers, which were pushed as a safer and better option than the NSAIDs (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs). Within days of...

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