Classifieds: | | | Wash/Politics Health Editorial/Opinion More News Marketplace Today's Top News Stories • - 10:47 AM • - 10:40 AM • - 10:39 AM • - 1:31 AM • - 11:44 PM • Witness asked about Vioxx, heart studies ANGLETON, Texas (AP) — Merck didn't do any significant studies on whether Vioxx could cause heart attacks or other serious cardiovascular problems before the popular painkiller went on the market in 1999, the company's top epidemiologist testified Wednesday. Nancy Santanello, head of Merck's epidemiology department and the company's corporate face at the nation's first Vioxx-related lawsuit to go to trial, said that nothing in Merck's database before the drug went on the market in 1999 indicated it could cause heart attacks. "At that time, we didn't think there was any risk," she said in her third day of questioning from plaintiff

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