LOS ANGELES -- A California jury Wednesday found pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. not liable for causing an elderly man's heart ailments after he took the drug maker's once-popular painkiller Vioxx.

NEW ORLEANS A federal jury ruled in favor of Merck & Co. Inc. on Tuesday in a lawsuit over the painkiller Vioxx, finding there was not enough evidence to link the drug to a Kentucky man's heart attack ...

Atlantic City, NJ - The jury in the first two cases of long-term Vioxx (rofecoxib) use to come to trial blamed the drug for the heart attack of one patient and slammed Merck for consumer fraud in both ...

NEW ORLEANS — Merck & Co. got slammed with two Vioxx trial setbacks on Thursday, calling into question the drug maker's strategy of taking on litigation over the withdrawn painkiller one case at a ...

ALBANY – The drug manufacturer Merck & Company is facing a flood of litigation after pulling its best-selling pain reliever, Vioxx, off the shelves late last month. Merck officials say they issued the ...

Houston attorney W. Mark Lanier discusses Thursday's ruling in favor of drug maker Merck in the death of a user of its painkiller Vioxx. Lanier won a similar case against Merck. Carol Ernst, whose ...

TRENTON, N.J. — Merck & Co. said Friday that it will pay $4.85 billion to end thousands of state and federal lawsuits over its painkiller Vioxx in one of the largest drug settlements ever. Company ...

Wharton, TX -- A judge on Tuesday declined to postpone jury selection in the nation's first state-level wrongful death trial related to the painkiller Vioxx because he said he would not assume ...

TRENTON, N.J. — Merck & Co. said Friday that it will pay $4.85 billion to end thousands of state and federal lawsuits over its painkiller Vioxx in one of the largest drug settlements ever. The company ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Merck & Co. Inc. has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Missouri consumers over its prescription pain reliever Vioxx in a deal that could cost the drugmaker up ...

A Texas jury yesterday found pharmaceutical giant Merck responsible for the death of a 59-year-old triathlete who was taking the company’s once-popular painkiller, Vioxx. The jury hearing the first ...

TRENTON, N.J. - Federal lawsuits alleging the blockbuster arthritis drug Vioxx hurt patients will be transferred to a Louisiana judge who will handle all of the pretrial proceedings. A panel of ...