It may take 1-2 months before you start to realize the health benefits, flexibility, ease of movement and potentially less muscle aching and joint pain.

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On average, patients take Vioxx for 2.6 months.

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Previous studies have found that dismissed cases can take 18 months to two years, settled cases may take 2-3 years, and cases that go to trial can take nearly four years to adjudicate.

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Google can take steps like hand out the latest Android SDKs 2-3 months before its official release.

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Engineers estimated last week that this plan would take between three and four months to complete the hole at 701 meters (2, 300 feet).

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Shares in Biogen Idec dipped 2.7% not only because the Food and Drug Administration said it would take an extra three months to review its key multiple sclerosis drug, BG-12, but because an Abbott Laboratories kidney cancer medicine that in some ways works similarly to BG-12 failed.

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The effort to drill through more than 2, 300 feet (700 meters) of rock and safely extract the workers could take three to four months, officials said.

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