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The latest Vioxx liability trial is under way in New Jersey, with a 68 year old grandmother as plaintiff.  
 
Elaine Doherty had a heart attack in January 2004. At the time she had been taking Vioxx for arthritis for over two years. 
 
She claims that Merck downplayed the risks of taking Vioxx in letters to doctors and in mentioning them in the "precautions" section of the package insert but not in the "warnings". Merck claims that the plaintiff had many risk factors for heart disease and would have had a heart attack anyway. 
 
Merck intends to fight the over 13,000 such lawsuits one at a time. This is the seventh to go to trial.

Latest Vioxx case hinges on warning

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 6/5/2006 10:32 PM

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. —Drug maker Merck & Co. repeatedly tried to downplay the cardiac risks of its painkiller Vioxx, so user Elaine Doherty didn't know about them before she suffered a heart attack after taking the drug, her lawyer told jurors Monday in the latest of the series of product liability cases against the drug's maker.
 
Merck, which now faces more than 13,000 Vioxx-related lawsuits over its one-time $2.5 billion-a-year blockbuster, has vowed to fight them one by one. Merck has lost three trials so far, with juries awarding multimillion-dollar verdicts in each. The company plans to appeal those losses
 
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