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Dr. David Graham, a 20-year FDA scientist who had warned that Merck Pharmaceutical's Vioxx arthritis drug Vioxx had heart risk implications, called the FDA's oversight of the drug "a profound regulatory failure" and went on to say that "the FDA as currently configured is incapable of protecting America against another Vioxx. We are virtually defenseless." Graham estimated Vioxx had caused between 88,000 and 139,000 excess cases of heart attack and stroke. |
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