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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drugs in the same category as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn Vioxx painkiller will get close scrutiny to see if they also can cause heart attacks, U.S. regulators said on Thursday.

Vioxx is a COX-2 inhibitor, part of a family of drugs that were heralded as safer options to older medicines such as aspirin that can cause dangerous stomach bleeding. Some had even dubbed them 'super-aspirin.'"
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