The average American kitchen contains more pain relievers than the average medicine cabinet according to reports from certified internist Jacob Teitelbaum, MD.

He believes that since they are all natural, the kitchen remedies are much safer than Motrin, Tylenol, Vioxx and other common pain medications sold in drug stores

A former Food and Drug Administration official testified that Merck & Co. had time to warn consumers that popular painkiller Vioxx increased the risk of heart attacks as soon as the evidence was first found.

The drug was pulled from the market in 2004, after a study showed it doubled the risk of heart attacks. Former FDA official Richard Kapit says that there was plenty of time to alert the public before the death of Richard "Dickie" Irvin, whose widow sued the company after Irvin suffered a fatal heart attack in 2001

More information regarding medical studies is made public by drug companies. However, a new analysis of a federal registry finds some details are being withheld.

Merck & Co., despite allegations that it hid information on Vioxx's dangers, improves in the new analysis from the previous one. However, Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Novartis didn't fair so well

A mistrial has been declared in the first federal lawsuit against drugmaker Merck and its Vioxx painkiller, after a nine-member jury is unable to reach a unanimous decision.

The hung jury was unable to agree whether the painkiller was the cause of a man's fatal heart attack

Shares of Merck and Co., makers of Vioxx, fall for a second day Friday, after the New England Journal of Medicine says authors of a study funded by Merck failed to disclose that three additional patients in a 2000 clinical study suffered heart attacks while using the now non-existent pain-killer.

In early trading on the New York Stock Exchange, shares of Merck fell 77 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $28.91