Mealey's (May 31, 2019, 11:25 AM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri federal judge on May 28 declined a request by drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. to exclude expert testimony linking a woman’s heart attacks to the arthritis pain drug Vioxx, saying the expert’s opinions “rest upon good grounds” under Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals precedent (Jo Levitt v. Merck & Company, Inc., No. 4:06-cv-00818, W.D. Mo., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88454)....