ONLINE FEATURES SITE SERVICES  >   > Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 National                 Posted on Wed, Jul. 13, 2005 Juror interviews under way in nation's first Vioxx trial KRISTEN HAYS Associated Press ANGLETON, Texas - Lawyers worked Wednesday toward whittling a pool of potential jurors to a panel of 12 that will decide the outcome of the nation's first Vioxx-related lawsuit to go to trial. Opening statements in what attorneys say will be a five-week trial could come as early as Thursday. Questioning from plaintiffs' attorney Mark Lanier revealed the group included two doctors who had prescribed Vioxx; a man whose grandfather had a heart attack after taking Vioxx for four years; and a woman who had taken Vioxx before it was pulled from the market last year and called it "a wonder drug." None of them were expected to be chosen. Others said

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