The claim is that vioxx actually was responsible for over 500,000 deaths, which would be about ten times the absolute highest (and much disputed) estimate that's been seen to date. On september 30, 2004, merck & co Merck voluntarily withdrew vioxx from the market in 2004 Research published in the medical journal lancet estimates that 88,000 americans had heart attacks from taking vioxx, and 38,000 of them died. Home digest in depth when half a million americans died and nobody noticed was the us drug vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far? Vioxx killed half a million
It’s looking more and more likely that the merck painkiller vioxx, the blockbuster drug suspected of having caused more than 55,000 deaths from stroke and heart attack before being withdrawn from the market in 2004, actually killed many more people than we previously thought. By the time vioxx was pulled from the market in september 2004, it is estimated that between 38,000 and 60,000 people had died due to complications associated with the drug.
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