Very interesting. I am very passionate about this topic, and I happen to know the author of the paper that took on Merck. The statistics in that paper are excee

Very interesting. I am very passionate about this topic, and I happen to know the author of the paper that took on Merck. The statistics in that paper are exceedingly convincing, since the study was conducted on a controlled set of patients, some whom received Vioxx, and some whom did not (a control group). This article points out a very interesting correlation between Vioxx being taken off the market, and a drop in death rates. Yet proving Vioxx as the causative agent will be very difficult.