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About This Document: Seven years after the biggest drug safety scandal since thalidomide was found to cause birth defects, Merck and the Justice Department announced a nearly $1 billion settlement of litigation over Vioxx, the Cox-2 pain drug found to cause strokes and heart attacks. Merck agreed to plead guilty to peddling the drug off-label -- for rheumatoid arthritis, for three years before winning approval for that indication -- and to pay a $321 million criminal fine. The feds will claim $426 million of that, with the remaining $201 million going to the participating Medicaid states.

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