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	Merck Under Fire for AIDS Study on Volunteer Patients in Brazil - Activists claim that the study was done in Brazil for the relative ease in finding HIV-infected volunteers who were "treatment virgins." Rate this
	Merck 'exaggerated' revenue in accounts - As investors fret over company accounts, a unit of the US drug giant says it booked $12.4bn in revenue that was never collected. [BBC News] Rate this
	Merck recorded revenue it never collected - Drugmaker recorded $14B in revenue since '99 that it never actually collected. Rate this
	Conflict Of Interest In Vaccine Research, Licensing & Policymaking - Michael Belkin alleges scientific fraud of recommending administration of vaccines that have not been tested properly for safety. Rate this
	Lawsuit claims life-threatening Vioxx side effects - The plaintiff suffered "dangerous, severe and life threatening" side effects that she attributed to taking Merck's arthritis painkiller, Vioxx. [Forbes.com] Rate this
	Legal roadshow rolls on to Brazil - Campaigners say that the companies are picking a fight with local legislation to intimidate developing countries into buying medicines at prices set by them. Rate this
	DOJ/Antitrust Lawsuit Against Merck for Price Fixing - Allegations include participation in conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by fixing the price and allocating the volume of vitamin C manufactured and sold. Rate this
	Vitamin Cartel Fined for Price Fixing - The companies fixed prices in the European market through a cartel that had a "formal structure and hierarchy," including a regular exchange of sales figures and pricing data. Rate this
	Link Between Drug Company Promo and Formularies  - Merck, through its acquisitions of pharmaceutical benefits managers, could have potential antitrust violations. Rate this

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• Why am I mad at Merck over Vioxx? - What is disturbing to me, is that given years of evidence that there was a risk of stroke and heart attack from Vioxx, Merck did NOT set out to study the cardiac impact -- rather only when it had an opportunity to add a new market for the drug did they d...
• Why am I mad at Merck over Vioxx? - ...
• Timeline of Merck's failure to act on removing Vioxx from the market - Based on an article by THE NEW YORK TIMES, by Alex Berenson, Gardiner Harris, Barry Meier and Andrew Pollack, "In May 2000, executives at Merck, the pharmaceutical giant under siege for its handling of the multibillion-dollar drug Vioxx, made a fateful d...