Vioxx fallout puts focus on drugs safety

Are you sad? A little anxious?

Getting aches and pains?

There's almost certainly a pill designed to help. But, as pharmaceutical companies promote drugs to alleviate every possible ailment, there is mounting concern that new drugs are being aggressively marketed with insufficient regard to health risks.

Nine days ago, pharmaceutical giant Merck was found negligent over the death of an American man who had taken its arthritis drug, Vioxx. Merck was ordered to ...