Settling Vioxx Claims Wasn't An About-Face: Merck

By Shannon Henson · November 9, 2007, 12:00 AM EST

While Merck & Co., Inc. has long held that it would fight each lawsuit alleging its painkiller Vioxx caused serious health problems individually, it said the $4.85 billion settlement it agreed...

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