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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A physician called to testify that Vioxx caused a blood clot which killed a Florida man cannot do so, the judge in the first federal Vioxx lawsuit ruled Friday.
That appears to cut to the heart of Evelyn Irvin Plunkett's claim against manufacturer Merck & Co. in the death of her husband, Richard "Dickie" Irvin, who took the drug for a month.
Her attorneys had called Dr. Michael Graham as an expert to say that Vioxx could cause blood clots in that short a time and had caused the one that brought on Irvin's fatal heart attack in 2001.
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