Word on how Merck marketed Vioxx throught clinical “studies”. Lost of chatter on this topic recently. Roy Poses provides a good place to start:
This article appears to be the first to provide evidence that pharmaceutical companies may deliberately disguise marketing efforts as clinical research. This is a real achievement, since obviously the companies involved make every effort to hide what they are doing, and it only through discovery during litigation did the facts come out.









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