Lawyers for Merck & Company asked a judge to throw out a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday, contending the woman who said the pain reliever Vioxx caused her husband’s death lied and committed fraud against the court.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 27, 2005
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In an e-mail exchange about Vioxx, the company’s most important new drug at the time, a senior Merck scientist repeatedly urged the researcher to change his views about the death “so that we don’t raise concerns.” In later reports to the Food and Drug Administration and in a paper published in 2003, Merck listed the cause of death as “unknown” for the patient, a 73-year-old woman.
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