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Make or break time in Vioxx drama

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Cases involving long-term users of Vioxx will, as Meredith Wadman reports, determine the true cost to Merck and the drug industry of the painkiller's withdrawal.

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Make or break time in Vioxx drama. Nature 440, 277 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440277a

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