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Merck

Business Health Personal Injury 

Shingles

February 28, 2020 BRIEF
Merck

Nine people claim Merck’s Zostavax shingles vaccine gave them shingles, in separate complaints in Philadelphia Federal Court.

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Consumers Health Personal Injury 

Shingles Vaccine

January 28, 2020January 29, 2020 BRIEF
diseases, Merck, pharmaceuticals, vaccines

Eight people claim in separate federal complaints that Merck’s Zostavax shingles vaccine gave them shingles.

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Government Health 

Congress Asks Merck for Information on Cyberattack

September 21, 2017September 21, 2017 BRANDI BUCHMAN
Congress, Cyberattacks, Merck, pharmaceuticals, vaccines

Worldwide disruption from a cyberattack on pharmaceutical giant Merck this summer has led Congress to request a formal briefing with the company’s CEO and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

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Business Health Politics 

Merck CEO Ditches Trump After Violence in Charlottesville

August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 BARBARA LEONARD
Donald Trump, Merck, pharmaceuticals, Twitter

Under pressure after failing to condemn white supremacists this weekend, Donald Trump suffered another blow Monday morning as the CEO of Merck resigned from a presidential advisory board.

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Business International 

EU Blasts Companies Over Merger Shenanigans

July 6, 2017July 7, 2017 WILLIAM DOTINGA
European Commission, General Electric, Merck, mergers & acquisitions

The European Commission on Thursday deepened its probe into three separate mergers involving Merck, General Electric and Canon, claiming the companies violated EU merger protocol during their acquisitions of other companies.

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Appeals Consumers 

Hundreds of Cases on Fosamax Fractures Revived

March 28, 2017January 2, 2018 PAMELA BAKER
cancer, Class Action, FDA, labeling, Merck, multidistrict litigation, pharmaceuticals, Third Circuit

In a sweeping reversal against the drugmaker Merck, the Third Circuit revived hundreds of class actions by people whose thigh bones shattered while they were taking the osteoporosis drug Fosamax.

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Government Health 

New York Moms Call HPV-Vaccination Law Unconstitutional

March 7, 2017May 22, 2018 PAMELA BAKER
consent, diseases, Merck, New York, parental rights, vaccines

A new New York law that lets doctors administer the HPV vaccine to children without their parents’ consent has triggered a federal complaint from five suburban moms.

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Appeals Health 

Maine Mom Stumbles in Suit Over Faulty Birth Control

January 31, 2017January 31, 2017 ZACK HUFFMAN
Maine, Merck, pregnancy

Though failed sterilizations are exempt from a Maine law that bars lawsuits over the birth of healthy babies, the state’s highest court tossed out a single mother’s wrongful-birth suit against the maker of her birth control.

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Personal Injury 

Vaccine

November 28, 2016May 15, 2018 BARBARA LEONARD
diseases, Merck, pharmaceuticals, vaccines

A New Jersey man claims in court that he suffered nerve damage from the shingles virus as a side effect of the Merck vaccine Zostavax.

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