"The Vioxx saga continues. Nearly eight years after Merck
withdrew the controversial painkiller over links to heart attacks and
strokes, a new paper indicates the drugmaker hid evidence that Vioxx
tripled the risk of cardiovascular death for more than three years
before taking the pill off the market in 2004. During the same period,
the paper in the American Heart Journal notes, Merck had regularly
insisted such an increased did not exist."
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