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Merck To Start Issuing Checks In Vioxx Settlement
Merck & Co. will start cutting checks for former users of its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx next month after announcing Thursday that it will fund a $4.85 billion settlement expected to resolve roughly 50,000 lawsuits. The decision marks the beginning of...Tags: Medicine, Western Medicines
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Merck to start payments in Vioxx lawsuits
The Associated PressMerck & Co. will start cutting checks for former users of its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx next month after announcing Thursday that it will fund a $4.85 billion settlement expected to resolve roughly 50,000 lawsuits. The decision marks the beginning of...Tags: Diseases, Coral Springs, Medicine, Justice System, Lawyers
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Merck set to pay its Vioxx bill
Associated PressTRENTON, N.J.—Merck & Co. will start cutting checks for former users of its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx next month after announcing Thursday that it will fund a $4.85 billion settlement expected to resolve roughly 50,000 lawsuits. The decision marks...Tags: Diseases, Medicine, Western Medicines, Heart Disease
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Darden settles ex-worker's lawsuit in California
Darden Restaurants paid $700,000 to settle a wage-dispute lawsuit filed by a former Olive Garden server in a California state court, the Orlando-based company said Thursday in a regulatory filing. In a complaint filed in August 2007, a former server...Tags: Consolidated-Tomoka Land Company, Medicine, Trials, Western Medicines, Darden Restaurants
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July 15: Compromise over Courtesy, seniors vs. shingles, shame hurts teens,
Don't argue over 52 housing units Thank you for bringing to the public's attention the seriousness of the problem confronting the West Hempstead community because of the Courtesy Hotel ["How courteous," Editorial, July 10]. For too many years, the...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine, Religious Leaders, Melville
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Seizure drugs won't get strong warning
WASHINGTON Drugs used to treat epileptic seizures can raise suicide risks, but not enough to deserve the strongest warning labels available, a government panel of experts said yesterday. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 14-4 against...Tags: Pfizer Incorporated, Health Organizations, GlaxoSmithKline
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It's official: get your shingles vaccination
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made official a recommendation it first put out 20 months ago: that adults 60 and older get vaccinated against shingles. The potentially debilitating illness involves mild-to-severe tingling,...Tags: Diseases, Metal and Mineral, Health Organizations, Building Material, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Should Parents Worry About HPV Vaccine?
CNNATLANTA - A vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer is coming under fresh scrutiny amid thousands of complaints linking it to a range of health problems. Gardasil has been the subject of 7,802 "adverse event" reports from the time the Food and Drug...Tags: Diseases, Vaccines, Cancer, Preventative Medicine, Health Organizations
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Debate rages over giving kids cholesterol drugs
Special to The Morning CallA recommendation from an influential doctors group that some children as young as 8 be aggressively treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs has triggered a debate over whether there is enough scientific evidence to justify such a move. Statins, already...Tags: Medicine, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Illnesses, Pediatrics, Medical Specialization
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Stocks fall on worries about financial sector
The Associated PressStocks lost more ground Monday in volatile trading in the wake of a cautious economic outlook from a Federal Reserve official and the possibility of more financial troubles for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Worries about the ailing financial sector...Tags: Stock Activities, Metal and Mineral, Citigroup Incorporated, Bank of America Corp., Banking
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