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    • Placing Blame for the Vioxx Debacle 

      Mancinelli, Sarah M. (2006)
      The purpose of this paper is to tell the complete story, from creation to termination to litigation, of the Merck Pharmaceutical Company drug, Vioxx. This paper will explain the type of drug Vioxx is and the way in which ...
    • Preventing the next Public Health Crisis: New Drug Approval after Vioxx 

      Zahler, Daniel (2005)
      The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug approval system has sought to strike a balance between two goals: ensuring that new drugs are safe enough for human use, while getting therapeutically important medications ...
    • Untangling the Vioxx-Celebrex Controversy: A Story about Responsibility 

      Tran, Lan (2005)
      While the withdrawal of prescription drugs is not a new concept, the Vioxx and Celebrex controversy has put a new spin on the issue of withdrawal. Vioxx and Celebrex belong to the same class of drugs and both were linked ...