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

2706.781 - 2726.788 Robert Evans

Many leading newspapers, including the Washington Post, also mocked the Ernst trial. In an editorial entitled The Vioxx Hex, the Post wrote that the Texas jury in that case awarded $253.4 million to the widow of a man who died of a heart attack triggered by arrhythmia, which is not a condition Vioxx has been proven to cause. The Post said the jury was confused about the medical evidence.