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Damages there will be cut to about one-tenth of the jury 's $ 253 million award due to that state 's caps on punitive damages.Much of the seven-week trial , eagerly watched by lawyers and plaintiffs from around the country , relied on the testimony of medical experts . Moving from hysteria to anorexia , dyspepsia to depression , neurasthenia to schizophrenia , we will track actual and fictional invalid women through an endless succession of water cures , rest cures , talking cures , forced feedings , sexual surgeries , electric shock therapies , and pharmaceutical interventions . 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 . We ca n't deal with external technologies before dealing with the internal technology infrastructure ; some of us do n't even have our own collections available through technology . A father and son were among them , he said . ATLANTIC CITY , N.J. ( AP ) Three years before it pulled Vioxx off the market , Merck & Co. publicly touted the safety of its arthritis drug in promotional campaigns and a news release , prompting a rebuke by federal regulators , according to documents shown to jurors Tuesday in a product liability trial over the drug.Jurors also saw excerpts of a study published by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration epidemiologist that said up to 140,000 Vioxx users suffered heart complications due to the drug while Vioxx was on the market between 1999 and 2004.The documents were shown in court on a day mainly focused on the combative cross-examination of a cardiology expert testifying for plaintiff Frederick " Mike " Humeston.Defending his opinions in a series of testy exchanges with Merck lawyer Stephen Raber , Dr. Benedict Lucchesi stood by his assertion that Vioxx — even if taken only once — could boost a person 's risk of heart attack or stroke . If the weekly reading takes you longer than 10 or 11 hours to complete , it is a sign that you need to make some adjustments in your reading habits . Emerging from a variety of existing literary and rhetorical forms - - among them criminal biography , the conversion narrative , the letter , the conduct book , the diary , romance , drama , and allegory - - the novel was , before it was anything else , new . " In it , Merck is being sued by Frederick " Mike " Humeston , 60 , an Idaho postal worker who suffered a heart attack two months after he turned to Vioxx to help with the pain from a Vietnam war wound . " That is the most important fact in this case , " said Sullivan.Cox-2 drugs inhibit the Cox-2 enzyme , which promotes inflammation , but protect users against stomach bleeding and ulcers , unlike other anti-inflammatory drugs.Agreeing with Humeston 's lawyers that the best evidence in the case was Humeston himself , Sullivan insisted his physical condition he had elevated blood pressure , was overweight and was under stress from a dispute with his U.S. Postal Service bosses triggered the Sept. 18 , 2001 heart attack , not Vioxx.She said there was doubt whether Humeston took the drug on the night of his heart attack , as he testified.Humeston had been given a 30-pill Vioxx prescription in May 2001 but did n't use it all because he said it was n't working for him . " The goal of the next exercise was to identify the common ground among all the stakeholders as demonstrated by the visions of an ideal future that they 'd just depicted , and to talk them through further . At the very least , a Future Search meeting results in several tangible action plans , created by attendees who have gone through the step-by-step exercises and ended up with a new perspective , and new energy to advance common interests . She must be prevented from setting foot in the place . We will read terrifically popular Irish writers alongside English novelists who packaged Ireland for an English public , mythic tales of national origin and gothic stories of nationalist discontent , famine poetry and writings from the Gaelic Revival , cultural nationalist polemic and early modernist classics . " It 's unlike any pain I ever felt , " Frederick Mike Humeston said of his heart attack . An Irishman of middle-class origins among the English , he gained access to the upper-class worlds of Oxford and London through his sheer intellectual and artistic brilliance . These are some of the questions that will occupy us this semester as we study a range of American writers who have approached the complex question of the " family story " through fiction . Lucchesi said after reviewing correspondence among Merck executives and scientists that he was surprised the company did n't put more emphasis on those risks . 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 . Information technology means that in an unmediated way , we are linked to the globe , and not through state or federal government . The privet bushes among the chopper-like notice-boards flowered , and in the streets where Oleron did his shopping the baskets of flower-women lined the kerbs .