Part Two: The Vioxx Scandal: How Big Pharma Killed More Americans Than Vietnam

1580.738 - 1603.275 Robert Evans

This was in the data. You could find it if you analyze the data. But it was not in any of the conclusions that Merck sent along to the FDA. And the FDA really just didn't do the work to actually figure this out very quickly. And so it wasn't until 14 months later in April of 2002 that the FDA actually forced through changes and how Vioxx was labeled to reflect the evidence of risk.