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" 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 . There had come the night when he had hardly forborne to throw the whole thing into the fire ; and the next morning he had begun the planning of the new Romilly . They raced to the Ernsts ' home where paramedics vigorously performed CPR . Since that night when he had thought in his greenness that a little studied neglect would bring the lovely Beckoner to her knees , and had made use of her own jealousy to banish her , he had not set eyes on those fifteen discarded chapters of Romilly.he had thrown them back into the window-seat , forgotten their very existence . Although Merck once hinted that it might be amenable to settling some of the suits , the company has since returned to its original stance : the company will fight every suit , no matter how long it takes . We have both the resources and the resolve to address these cases one by one over many years , " Merck general counsel Kenneth Frazier told the Associated Press.That 's an aggressive position when one considers the history of Vioxx .