Classifieds: | | | News Markets Investor Tools Managing Money Special Sections Marketplace Your portfolio - Today's Top Money Stories • - 4:05 PM • - 5:16 PM • - 3:32 PM • - 9:02 AM • - 1:44 PM • Merck to face first Vioxx trial before Texas jury next month By Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY Running marathons, riding in long-distance bike races and leading exercise classes for seniors, Robert Ernst seemed far more physically fit than a typical 59-year-old. Bob and Carol Ernst during a day of bike riding in 1997. But the former Vioxx user whose sudden death in May 2001 is the focus of the first court case involving the painkilling drug also had some clogged coronary arteries, a possible outcome of the smoking he had long since quit, and the drinking he had all but stopped. In a trial set to open July 11, jurors in a Texas state court case are to beg

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