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This Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety officer raised concerns about the cardiovascular side effects of rofecoxib (Vioxx) and other Cox-2 inhibitors.
However, according to David Graham's testimony to the United States Senate [15] and a report on internal Merck documents [16], there was good reason for concern about a possible safety signal before 1999, when Vioxx was approved and recruitment for VIGOR began [15].
David Graham—who testified at a US Senate Finance Committee hearing on rofexocib (Vioxx), the FDA, and Merck [1]—said that there was a conspiracy by senior management at the FDA “to intimidate me ahead of the Senate testimony.”
“The pharma–FDA complex has to be dismantled,” said Graham, “and the American people have to insist on that, otherwise we're going to have disasters like Vioxx that happen in the future.”
In comments that echoed his testimony to the US Senate Finance Committee, Graham said that, “FDA was the single greatest obstacle to doing anything effective with Vioxx.