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Nov 15, 2006 3:46 pm US/Eastern

Jury Clears Merck In Latest Vioxx Trial

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ― A federal jury on Wednesday cleared Merck & Co. in the July 2003 heart attack suffered by a Utah bank credit manager who had taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx for 10 1/2 months.

Charles Laron "Ron" Mason, 64, of Salt Lake County, Utah, began taking Vioxx after years of taking anti-inflammatory drugs because of back pain.

The case was the 11th to be tried and the fourth in federal court.

Merck won two previous federal cases and lost the third. In state court, it has won three, and lost three. Jurors decided a fourth case in Merck's favor, but the judge later ordered a retrial.

(© 2006 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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