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Merck argues that excess weight and other cardiac risk factors , not Vioxx , caused Humeston 's heart attack.Merck removed Vioxx from the market a year ago after studies linked it to higher incidences of heart attacks and strokes.But in May 2001 , Merck issued a news release with the headline : " Merck Confirms Favorable Cardiovascular Safety Profile of Vioxx . Sometimes a flitting half-memory , of a novel to be written , a novel it was important that he could write , tantalised him for a space before vanishing again ; and sometimes whole novels , perfect , splendid , established to endure , rose magically before him . And since the whole attempt had failed , it was hardly worth while to consider whether a little might not be saved from the general wreck . Gaziano , an expert in cardiology and epidemiology hired by Merck , contradicted statements of experts who testified on Humeston 's behalf that Vioxx caused his heart attack.He also contradicted the findings of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , which last April concluded that Cox-2 inhibitors are associated with increased risk of heart attack , stroke and death with long-term use.Merck blames the heart attack on Humeston , saying elevated blood pressure , excess weight and on-the-job stress triggered the attack , which he survived.His case is one of more than 7,000 suits filed against Merck over Vioxx , and plaintiff lawyers say thousands more suits will be filed in the future.In the first Vioxx trial , a Texas jury in August found Merck liable in a Vioxx user 's death , awarding his widow $ 253 million . Throughout the century , whole scientific disciplines grew up around the threatening figures of criminals , homosexuals , paupers and hysterical women ; while even such seemingly innocuous topics as masturbation , nervousness and dirt were pervaded by a sense of danger and disgust . to help , " the 60-year-old plaintiff testified.Humeston said his son , who is also expected to testify in the case , completed the job as a Father 's Day gift.The Idaho resident and avid hiker described himself as " bulletproof " before the heart attack , but useless after it . The low illumination on the blind at his elbow grew dimmer ( the time had been when Oleron would have concluded that the lamplight going his rounds had turned low the flame of the lamp ) . And a compromise arrangement that had been reached - - to let the open solicitations continue , but to screen off the promenade from the auditorium with a low barrier - - did not last long : on the first night after the barrier was installed , it was torn down in protest by a gang of young , fashionable , gentlemen-about-town , led by the young Winston Churchill . Other accounts studiously contain the sprawling and unruly nineteenth century by displacing it : onto France , whose symbolist poets , impressionist painters , and experimental novelists can safely be seen as the respectably subversive ancestors of modernist innovation ; or onto fin-de-siecle British aestheticism , whose decadent writers , painters , and personalities broke with mainstream Victorian culture in ways that enabled modernism to make an even bigger break later on . 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 . The sweeping , minutely electric noise filled the whole bedroom , and had Oleron altered his point of observation he could have brought the dim gleam of the moving comb so into position that it would almost have outlined his grandmother 's head . The bed was a low one ; the groping for the slippers accounted for the turn of his head to one side ; and he was careful to keep the attitude until he had partly recovered his self-possession .