More on the Merck Vioxx emails

Here is another article on some of the contents of the internal Merck emails regarding Vioxx.

These emails played a prominent role in the first Vioxx trial in Texas and have also been shown to the jury in the ongoing New Jersey trial.

Here is a brief excerpt on some of the contents of the emails:

"In a video deposition, ex-Merck research chief Edward Scolnick was asked by a lawyer for plaintiff Frederick Humeston, a Vioxx user who blames the painkiller for his 2001 heart attack, about e-mails he wrote confessing his concerns about the drug's safety.

"My worry quotient is high," he wrote in an April 2000 e-mail. "I am actually in minor agony."