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. 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the blockbuster drug suspected of having caused more than 55,000 deaths from stroke and heart attack before being withdrawn from the market in 2004, actually killed many more people than we previously thought. On september 30, 2004, merck & co 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? 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. Number of patients affected by vioxx at the time of its recall, vioxx had been taken by some 4 million americans Out of those patients who took vioxx, the arthritis drug may have caused approximately 140,000 heart attacks resulting in an estimated 60,000 deaths, fda investigator graham. 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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