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But he got a second prescription two months later , which Sullivan insisted made no sense if he had pills left over and did n't think it was working in the first place.Humeston and his wife , who also testified , remembered that he had taken the last pills in the bottle the night he was stricken , but she could n't remember when his last dose was when she was asked at the hospital later . Neither novels nor biographies were thought to be quite legitimate at first ; both were seen as morally suspect genres , as inherently questionable kinds of writing that , in dealing closely with the most personal and intimate aspects of their subjects ' lives , encouraged an unhealthy prurience in readers and writers alike . However , Mayer said Merck has persuaded state judges in " a fairly large number " of such cases to transfer them to federal court , arguing the second defendant is not a bona fide target.Cases filed in Merck 's home state of New Jersey , where about half the existing cases are filed , cannot legally be moved to federal court.In Atlantic City , where Merck is wrapping up its defense against a postal worker who blames his heart attack on Vioxx , a cardiology expert on Monday said in testimony that there is no evidence someone who took Vioxx so briefly was at increased risk of a heart attack.Plaintiff Frederick Humeston , 60 , of Boise , Idaho , took the painkiller for about two months before the heart attack on Sept. 18 , 2001 . He was waiting for that granting , in that flower-laden , frightfully enticing apartment of his , with the pith-white walls tinged and subdued by the crimson blinds to a blood-like gloom He paid no heed to it that his stock of money was running perilously low , nor that he ha cease to work . She had given him his liberty ; true , there was a sense in which he had never parted with it , but now was no time for splitting hairs ; he was free to act , and all was clear ahead . The idea contained within Ackroyd 's subtitle , that it is neither possible nor desirable simply to write a history of London , to treat that great metropolis as if it were an inanimate and static thing , will anchor our study of London and literature . No results had shown . Fate has no morrow .