Judge Declares Mistrial in Vioxx Suit

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A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the first federal lawsuit over the once-popular painkiller Vioxx.


Merck & Co. emerged from its third Vioxx trial Monday with a hung jury when the panel failed, in about 18 hours of deliberations over three days, to side with the drug maker or the widow of a 53-year-old Florida man who died after taking Vioxx for about a month.


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