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In order to address these questions , we will necessarily have a dual focus in this course , studying what these variously re-written works meant during the nineteenth-century in order to better address their significance to late twentieth-century ideas about authorship and culture . Shares have been hovering between $ 25 and $ 30 since the Texas loss , well below their level of nearly $ 50 before Merck withdrew Vioxx from the market.The first charge the jury will consider is whether Merck failed to adequately warn doctors of the association between Vioxx and increased risk of heart attack and stroke , which it either knew or should have known about prior to Humeston 's heart attack.If jurors find Merck failed to warn of the risks , they would then decide whether they believe Vioxx contributed to Humeston 's heart attack . ATLANTIC CITY , N.J. ( AP ) Hammering away at a handful of key themes , a lawyer for Merck & Co. urged jurors Monday to absolve the Vioxx manufacturer of liability for a heart attack suffered by an Idaho postal worker , saying the company thoroughly tested the drug and that federal regulators concluded it was n't a risk with short-term use.In closing arguments in the product liability case , Merck attorney Diane Sullivan said Frederick " Mike " Humeston was n't taking the painkiller long enough to have been at risk and that the Whitehouse Station , N.J. - based drug company cannot be held accountable for his heart attack . This course will take as its animating premise that the Victorian novel did much to shape - - or temper - - the Victorian temper ; that , indeed , Victorian moods may be said to be inseparable from Victorian novels , which alternately helped to bring a range of modern affects into being ( among them boredom , nervousness , love and depression ) , and worked to initiate the analysis of affect that eventually became the modern science of psychology . " Eventually , they 'll have to face us . Because this is a course on the British novel , the reading load for this course is necessarily heavy . I myself am not guiltless of having made a number of notes on its purely ecclesiastical history , its registers and so forth , which I shall be happy to show you if you would care to see them ; but it is a large parish , I have only on e curate , and my leisure , as you will readily understand . " While my family and I fortunately evacuated to Houston , Texas prior to the hurricane 's arrival , we lost the bulk of our clothes and personal belongings . Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee denied Merck 's motion , saying the company 's defense team had ample opportunity to take a deposition from Lucchesi or challenge his credentials prior to the start of the trial and had not done so.Humeston 's lead attorney , Chris Seeger , then called Lucchesi to the stand and questioned him at length about his expertise in cardiology and pharmacology , the study of drugs and their effects . " Four months later , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wrote to Merck President Raymond Gilmartin and told him the promotional campaign was misleading.The claim that Vioxx " has a ' favorable cardiovascular profile ' is simply incomprehensible , " said the letter from Thomas W. Abrams , director of the Department 's Division of Drug Marketing , Advertising and Communication , which monitors pharmaceutical advertising.Last year , after Vioxx was pulled off the market , senior FDA epidemiologist David Graham published a treatise in Lancet that said " 88,000 to 140,000 excess cases of serious coronary heart disease probably occurred in the USA over the market life of rofecoxib , " or Vioxx.When trials show that a new treatment " confers a greater risk of a serious adverse effect than a standard treatment , we must be much more careful about allowing its unrestrained use , " Graham wrote.Under cross-examination , Lucchesi — who was on the stand when the documents were presented on an overhead projector — read fine print at the bottom of the study that said the opinions were not necessarily those of the FDA.The documents swung the tenor of what started as a good day for Merck , with Lucchesi acknowledging he had misspoken on the stand earlier.He told jurors he had not reviewed a document attached to a 1997 e-mail message from a Merck scientist that he said on Friday showed Merck had tried to alter the design of an upcoming study by giving aspirin to patients on Vioxx to protect their hearts .