Friday, March 04, 2005

Merck suit:Vioxx led to death of city woman

The daughter of a 64-year-old Lowell woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., claiming her mother's use of the prescription painkiller Vioxx triggered a fatal heart attack.
Jeanette Anderson's $900,000 civil suit, filed in Lowell Superior Court, claims her mother, Esther Lee Wright, died on Feb. 8, 2002, of an acute myocardial infarction as a direct result of her use of Vioxx for several years.

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