Vioxx jury selection begins
‘Merck & Co., ordered last month to pay $253 million to a Vioxx user’s widow, will argue in a second trial that opened Monday that other causes, not its painkiller, were responsible for the heart attack of an ex-Marine.
Jury selection began in Atlantic City, N.J., where Frederick Humeston claims in court papers that Merck ignored cardiovascular risks of Vioxx before pulling the drug from the market last September. Humeston, 60, had a heart attack in 2001 after taking Vioxx for a knee he injured in the Vietnam War.’
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