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(From CBS Marketwatch (Stories))
Byline: Andy Dubyckyj
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- The New England Journal of Medicine is accusing the authors of a Merck-sponsored study on the safety of painkiller Vioxx of omitting certain negative data about the drug when they published an article on the results in 2000.
In an editorial late Thursday, the editors of the prestigious medical journal said that the study failed to mention three heart attacks suffered by participants using Vioxx, which has since been taken off the market because of safety concerns.
The editorial also said that the omission allowed the study's scientists to understate the…