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Rodent of the Week: Why did Vioxx cause heart attacks? - latimes.com

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A study in mice shows that an increase in a substance in the blood may have caused the heart attacks and strokes attributed to the arthritis drug Vioxx.

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Tags: Heart, Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Stroke, Thrombotic Event, Vioxx

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Rodent of the Week: Why did Vioxx cause heart attacks? http://lat.ms/aUcl3N

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Merck’s Vioxx scandal widens: Drug maker knew Vioxx was deadly for years before risk was made public

prisonplanet.com — “The Vioxx scandal widened this week as new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that Vioxx maker Merck held data for three years that proved Vioxx caused an alarming increase in the risk of heart attacks and strokes.View full resource at prisonplanet.com

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Most Recently Shared on November 26, 2009 at 11:06 am By:

MatthewBrowning Matthew Browning Health Executive and Nurse

Whoa!! Did Merck really kill 60,000 people BEFORE saying Vioxx was suspect?? Why do we allow this? http://bit.ly/8TErLw

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