Guest guest Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 It appears that the number of deaths caused by Vioxx will be revised upwards to between 89,000 to 139,000 (the data is for the United States alone). Andrew Jack of the Financial Times who interviewed Dr. David Graham, an expert at the FDA, is reporting that the data is likely to be published in the medical journal The Lancet. In the initial estimates provided by the FDA, 27,785 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths between 1999 and 2003 were attributed to Vioxx. Dr. Graham has provided these estimates in subsequent statements and since then most analysts have put worldwide deaths to be somewhere in the range of 150,000 to 200,000. Google search on vioxx graham deaths Steve Kaufman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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