Allegations That Merck Threatened Researchers Who Expressed Doubts About Vioxx

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported a series of allegations that a top Merck executive threatened and intimidated physicians who questioned ...

New Marketing Campaign "To Build Emotional Ties Between Merck and Consumers"

The NY Times reported that Merck is embarking on a big $20 million marketing campaign to "help burnish its corporate brand rather than ...

Congressional Hearings on Misleading Marketing of Vioxx

Yet more bad news about Merck, in addition to the issues summarized in our recent post about the resignation of its CEO... There is an excel...

Merck CEO Quits

Merck CEO Raymond V Gilmartin has just announced his resignation. The new CEO will be Richard Clark. Clark first served as a quality control...

More evidence of ghostwriting

Yet more on ghost writing of scientific papers as posted here and here : Quoting a New York Times article, Evidence in Vioxx Suits Shows In...

Thoughts on the Merck CEO Getting a "Performance" Bonus

Regarding the post below by Roy Poses: as former Director of Published Information Resources (running Merck Research Labs' science libr...

After Vioxx Withdrawal, How Did the Merck CEO Get a "Performance" Bonus?

USA Today has an article (with accompanying data table ) about the resurgence of stratospheric pay for corporate CEOs. For example, Ray Gilm...