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The jurors voted 8-1 that Merck properly warned doctors about risks with Vioxx and voted unanimously on three counts that Merck did not mislead doctors about the drug 's safety.Humeston 's lawyers painted a picture of the two-time Purple Heart winner as a victim of a greedy drug company that put profits before patients , rushing Vioxx to market in an unsuccessful bid to beat rival Celebrex onto drugstore shelves.About 20 million Americans took Vioxx after it hit the market in 1999 , embracing it for its effectiveness in relieving pain while sparing them the upset stomachs , ulcers and other gastric problems associated with some other analgesics.At its peak , Vioxx was a $ 2.5 billion-a-year blockbuster.It worked for Humeston , alleviating pain in his left knee , which sustained shrapnel injuries during his U.S. Marine Corps service in Vietnam . The story of the rise of the novel is the story of how a new literary form became a distinct , established genre , one whose formal conventions quickly grew to be every bit as stylized as those of poetry and drama . The listserv provides you with a separate forum in which to raise questions relavant to the concerns of the course as well as to further class discussion about particular texts . This posting can take a number of forms - - it can consist of a series of questions about the reading for that week , or it can consist of an effort to sketch out an idea or even a short reading of an assigned text or texts , or it can consist of some combination of the two . Vioxx breaks down so slowly in the body that it takes about 85 hours to clear out of the blood , testified Dr. Benedict Lucchesi , a professor at the University of Michigan who helped develop the first pacemaker . This posting can take a number of forms - - it can consist of a series of questions about the reading for that week , or it can consist of an effort to sketch out a thesis or even a short reading of an assigned text or texts , or it can consist of some combination of the two . Over the course of the term , we will watch a variety of writers struggling to make the novel form serve their artistic goals , their economic needs , and in some cases , their political ends .