Embedded Player In Angleton, Texas, jurors begin deliberations in the first Vioxx-related case to come to trial. Merck pulled Voxx from the market last year after a study showed the painkiller caused heart attacks. Merck maintains Vioxx was the most-intensively studied painkiller ever designed. The case is being closely watched, because Merck faces more than 4,000 similar Vioxx lawsuits.