Merck loses another Vioxx case

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

By Maureen Cavanaugh and KPBS Public Broadcasting

Audio

Aired 4/19/09

Merck faces more than 16,000 lawsuits from people who say they suffered heart attacks or strokes after taking Vioxx. Law professor Bryan Liang speaks about the pair of losses that Merck suffered last week in lawsuits over the drug Vioxx. 

Guests:

  • Bryan Liang, law professor from California Western School of Law. He is the director of the school’s Institute of Health Law Studies.  He is also an associate professor of anesthesiology at the UCSD School of Medicine.

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