N.J., Texas courts reverse verdicts in Vioxx cases
(AP
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080529/ap_on_bi_ge/vioxx_litigation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080514/i/r3486935256.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=tzth.QYFpgzeS_Sbcq1Z.A--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="Bottles of the prescription arthritis and pain medication VIOXX sit on a shelf at a New York City Pharmacy, September 30, 2004. REUTERS/Mike Segar" border="0" /></a>AP - Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas on Thursday scrapped verdicts against the drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.</p><br clear="all"/>

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