Vioxx: UK medicine regulators see little risk from danger painkiller in July 2000

This material is from a 2005 investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London into the painkiller Vioxx | Go to Vioxx index

The document below is a restricted report, titled "Rofecoxib and Thromboembolic Events - Results of the Vigor Study", by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency submitted to a meeting of the British government's Committee on Safety of Medicines held on June 12 2000.

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