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Her husband suffered a fatal heart attack after taking Vioxx for a month.Birchfield said he is n't worried about the limited Vioxx use because he said studies do link Vioxx with cardiovascular risks after short-term use . You often do n't know what you think until you have to write it down ; similarly , the writing process always helps you to refine and focus your thinking , to explore and articulate your ideas , and to uncover fresh insights into what you have read . For example , would n't it be cool to have an internet site where people who are interested in giving things to museums could put them on the website and museums looking for things could find them ? " The verdict capped a trial centering on Frederick " Mike " Humeston , 60 , of Boise , Idaho , who was stricken two months after he began taking the drug to ease pain from a Vietnam war knee injury.Merck 's lawyers appeared to be fighting a losing battle , repeatedly clashing with Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee , who denied key motion requests by them and threw out the testimony of Merck 's first witness on procedural grounds.On five different occasions , Merck asked her to declare a mistrial . He stood on the kerb plunged in misery , looking after her as long as she remained in sight ; but almost instantly with her disappearance he felt the heaviness lift a little from his spirit . A father and son were among them , he said . On the other charges , I would say ' Not guilty , ' " Liz Dilley , a 26-year-old bookkeeper said.She said she felt Waterman pursued inappropriate relationships with Arrant and Radel to get attention and " knew about [ the murder ] to a certain extent . In the case , the widow of a man who took the drug for about eight months before he died in his sleep alleges Vioxx caused his death and Merck knew the drug was dangerous years before voluntarily pulling it from the market in September.Merck says the company acted responsibly , disclosed Vioxx research and voluntarily removed the drug from the market when a study showed it doubled the risk of heart attack if taken for a year and a half or more.On Monday Lanier presented an internal memo laying out the " Dodge Ball " training and asked Santanello why trainees could only move on to the next round of the card game if they gave Merck-approved answers to possible doctors ' questions about Vioxx safety or dodged such questions altogether . He walked slowly for a reason , twice turning away from the house within a stone's-throw of the gate and taking another turn of twenty minutes or so . If the weekly reading takes you longer than 10 or 11 hours to complete , it is a sign that you need to make some adjustments in your reading habits . Based on the survey results and their analyses , the Foundation decided to advance the region 's community of collections-based institutions - - the museums , libraries , archives , and historic sites - - by offering them to opportunity to develop a collective vision and shared strategies to advance that vision . " On the conspiracy charge , I was n't sure . " When you're hunting you do n't expect somebody to try to shoot you and murder you , " he said . Her lawyer painted her most recent ex-boyfriend as the criminal mastermind , a pathetic , obsessive loser who became unhinged when Lauri Waterman barred him from dating her daughter . No : let her cal and knock and sob . In 1836 , the London publishing firm Chapman and Hall hired the twenty-four-year-old hack writer and journalist Charles Dickens to write extended narrative captions for a series of woodcuts depicting humorous scenes of English sporting life . I do n't want her being yanked back and forth out of jail , " he said.At the hearing , the judge lowered bail from Waterman from $ 150,000 to $ 50,000 , and the defense lawyer says he expects her family to post bail in the next few days.Waterman , 17 , broke down in tears as Collins announced her decision . He would n't have taken it had he known about the heart attack risk , lawyer Chris Seeger told jurors.Merck repeatedly reminded jurors that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved it as safe and effective on four occasions for use against different types of pain , the last a month before Merck recalled it.The company 's lawyers cited Humeston 's elevated blood pressure , weight and stress from an ongoing dispute he was having with his U.S. Postal Service bosses , saying they were to blame for his heart attack , not Vioxx.The night before the heart attack , Humeston was called by his personal physician in response to an office visit by Postal Service fraud investigators in which they showed him a secretly-recorded videotape of Humeston working on a car at his home.Merck 's expert cardiologist testified that that call was the " absolute trigger " for the heart attack.While Humeston made for a sympathetic plaintiff , he also was a relatively healthy one , appearing in court for nearly every day of testimony and taking the stand for one day.In the Texas case , the victim was a Wal-Mart produce manager who died after taking Vioxx ; his widow was the plaintiff.Merck 's lawyers also told jurors there was no scientific link between short-term Vioxx use and heart attacks . " She would n't have got away if I 'd given her as much as a word or a look ! The purpose of the weblog is to provide you with a forum for discussion that is not directly controlled and mediated by me . " " You are still the defender of Vioxx , are n't you ? " We are going to keep fighting them ( Merck ) with everything we have , " Birchfield said.Birchfield represents Evelyn Irvin Plunket , the plaintiff in the first federal case , slated to begin next month in Houston .