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A new international study found that Merck's pain killer Vioxx (rofecoxib), which the drug company voluntarily withdrew from the market in 2004, found that a near two-fold increased risk of heart, stroke and death persisted for up to one year after stopping use. The study was the work of Dr Robert Bresalier, a professor of medicine at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and colleagues from other research centres in the ...
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