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This is an excellent summary of the events surrounding the approval and eventual withdrawal of Vioxx, from 1998 to the present (June 2006).  
 
It outlines how evidence of heart and stroke complications existed from the beginning, and how conflict of interest and witholding of data might have impacted decisions regarding clinical studies. 
 
It reports that a prestigious medical journal, "Lancet", concludes that in the US alone, 88,000 people had Vioxx-related heart attacks, with 38,000 deaths among them.

Timeline: The Rise and Fall of Vioxx

NPR - 6/8/2006 2:52 PM

Shortly before the FDA approved Vioxx in 1999, drug maker Merck launched a study it hoped would prove that Vioxx was superior to older painkillers, because it caused fewer gastrointestinal problems. Instead, the study would eventually show Vioxx could be deadly, causing heart attacks and strokes.
 
Five years after Vioxx's launch, Merck withdrew the drug from the market. By that time, Merck had sold billions of dollars of the drug worldwide. A timeline of Vioxx's rise and fall:
 
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