The Vioxx Disaster: A Pain Worse than Arthritis

A Grade 12 chemistry project about the 2004 Vioxx withdrawal. This was completed the night right before I had to present!

Enjoy, if possible.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• sch
• 4u
• sch4u
• vioxx
• lawsuit
• personal
• attorney
• tragedy
• debacle
• cox
• cox-2
• inhibitor
• rofecoxib
• iupac
• methyl
• chemistry
• organic
• benzene
• ketone
• sulfone
• furan
• pain
• menstrual
• osteoarthritis
• cartilege
• overdramatic
• marshmellows
• models
• yummy
• nasty
• cyclooxygenase

[ndutz01]

Guys, that was brilliant! Thank you so much, i think you are very talented investigative journalists and pharmacologists.. Bring us more of these...we like very much :)

[lukethezhou]

@ndutz01 Thank you!

I produced this all on my own though; I *wish* I had a team of journalists & pharmacologists working for me >:)

[ndutz01]

@lukethezhou  Wow, even more impressed. You have a lot of talent Luke. are you canadian by any chance?

[lukethezhou]

@ndutz01 Yup.

[reg153reid]

Thanks for the vid. My wife died in 2001 after taking it. She never knew what hit her. Nobody in power ever said they were sorry. Don't take any drug that hasn't been on the market at least eight years. That's my mantra.

[1crzybiotch]

this was VERY well put together and highly enjoyable...i'm in my first general medical physiology class at UCLA learning about COX-1 and COX-2 inhibitors right now and you might have just made this the clearest it's ever been for me, so thanks for that haha...excellent job =)

[lukethezhou]

@DebGold9780 My first spam comment? HOORAY.

[ndutz01]

@lukethezhou - Yay! Go Canada. I thought so...all the best Luke and i hope to see more of your work. I was having a hard time understanding the action of COX-2 inhibitors and when i watched your video it finally made total sense.