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The popular painkiller Vioxx was pulled off the market on September 30, 2004 by Merck & Company after new data from a three-year study confirmed that it increases a patients' risk of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Vioxx in 1999 for the reduction of pain and inflammation caused by arthritis, as well as for acute pain in adults and for the treatment of menstrual pain. Vioxx has been marketed in more than 80 countries. In some countries, the painkiller is marketed under the name Ceoxx.
Merck estimates 105 million U.S. prescriptions were written for Vioxx from May 1999 through August 2004. The company believes that nearly 20 million patients are taking Vioxx in the United States.
Worldwide sales of Vioxx in 2003 were $2.5 billion.
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