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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 . 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 . We will round out our study of novel time machines with a look at Anthony Trollope 's defiantly present-centered blockbuster , The Way We Live Now ( 1875 ) , and we will conclude with a look at the slim , fin-de-siecle volume that formalized the nineteenth-century novel 's longstanding treatment of narrative as a form of time travel : H. G. Wells ' Time Machine ( 1898 ) . 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 . The drugs block the Cox-2 enzyme that promotes inflammation , but protect the stomach lining , unlike other anti-inflammatory drugs.There is no proof that either short-term or long-term use of the now-withdrawn painkiller leads to increased risk of serious cardiovascular complications , according to Gaziano , one of Merck 's final witnesses in the seven-week trial . We want to be part of a larger geographical area - - and we want variety to be maintained but not to become an obstacle . He was looking out of his window one midday rather tired , not very well , and glad that it was not very likely he would have to stir out of doors , when he saw Elsie Bengough crossing the square towards his house . John Michael Gaziano , a Harvard Medical School professor , said low-dose use of the Cox-2 inhibitors such as Vioxx confers no more risk on users than use of dummy pills .