Vioxx victims to receive medical screening

Vioxx victims received another victory over Merck. The company withdrew the deadly painkiller in 2005 after it was found that as many as 60,000 Americans died due to heart attacks and strokes due to the side effects of the drug. Many of these patients who did not suffer a cardiovascular complication, like Phyllis Sinclair and Joseph Murray, had sued the firm seeking medical monitoring. The company has been very hostile to its past customers and refused to pay for it.

A New Jersey Appeals court is ordering Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee that she reconsider her earlier decision to side with the drugmaker.