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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Merck Vioxx Trial Was Conducted to Boost Sales</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/08/20/Merck-Vioxx-Trial-Was-Conducted-to-Boost-Sales.aspx</link><description>Merck’s marketing department devised a study on the painkiller Vioxx solely in order to persuade 600 doctors involved in the trial to prescribe the drug and recommend it to their peers. This information is based on 100 internal company memos and reports</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: Merck Vioxx Trial Was Conducted to Boost Sales</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/08/20/Merck-Vioxx-Trial-Was-Conducted-to-Boost-Sales.aspx#128572</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:48:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:128572</guid><dc:creator>Rogway</dc:creator><description>This shouldn't suprise anyone. After all, would we expect any different from the line of abadon?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is our chance folks. Lets all email, print this article and the article Dizzylzzy1 posted&amp;nbsp;and do&amp;nbsp;whatever we have to and get one person we know and they get one person they know and so on and send it to&amp;nbsp;our representives and tell the WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND JUSTICE. We the people demand those people be held accountable for their deceiving actions. Of course we know that the gov always prosecutes people who lie.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=128572" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Merck Vioxx Trial Was Conducted to Boost Sales</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/08/20/Merck-Vioxx-Trial-Was-Conducted-to-Boost-Sales.aspx#128571</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:40:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:128571</guid><dc:creator>rhondaradler</dc:creator><description>Up-to-the-minute news on the vioxx settlement. A place for you to share your stories and get advice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target=_new rel=nofollow  href="http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/viox-xsettlementgroup/"&gt;http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/viox-xsettlementgroup/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=128571" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Merck Vioxx Trial Was Conducted to Boost Sales</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/08/20/Merck-Vioxx-Trial-Was-Conducted-to-Boost-Sales.aspx#128570</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:21:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:128570</guid><dc:creator>DizzyIzzy1</dc:creator><description>How about this one?&lt;br /&gt;"Merck caught in massive scientific fraud as in-house authors were disguised as independent scientists..."&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=128570" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Merck Vioxx Trial Was Conducted to Boost Sales</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/08/20/Merck-Vioxx-Trial-Was-Conducted-to-Boost-Sales.aspx#128567</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:42:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:128567</guid><dc:creator>curlilox</dc:creator><description>Considering doctors are supposed to be so intelligent, it surprises me that they fall for such scams!&amp;nbsp; The purpose seems to be pretty obvious to me.&amp;nbsp;Maybe the doctors just like the perks!&amp;nbsp; In that case, the patient's best interest is not as important as the benefits.&amp;nbsp; And people wonder why I don't go to the medical doctor!&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=128567" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>