Professor Michael Langman's statement of reply to Sunday Times Vioxx inquiries

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

A name which repeatedly cropped up in Brian Deer's research was Professor Michael Langman, co-pricipal investigator of a Merck-funded project called "Victor", investigating the potential for Vioxx to prevent colon cancer recurrence, and also a member of the UK government's Committee on Safety of Medicines. He declined to be interviewed, and these are his written responses: the first following a telephone conversation in which Deer invited him to be interviewed, the second following the supply of written points