ADVANTAGE: Who was actually in charge of R&D? And other question...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 11:18

Roy Poses addresses many of the controversial issues raised by the Annals of Internal Medicine article "The ADVANTAGE seeding trial: a review of internal documents" in "Bad Seed: the ADVANTAGE Trial of Vioxx ."

I wish to raise a few additional questions:

The Wall Street Journal and others pointed out that Edward Scolnick, MD, President of Merck Research Labs and largely seen as the #2 official in the company, worried that the ADVANTAGE study...


 

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