Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar -- Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning -- died on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia of a heart attack, the official MENA news agency reported. Tantawi, 81, was in Riyadh to attend the King Faisal awards ceremony, it said. He died in the Saudi Arabian capital "after a sudden heart attack," MENA said.

The once-popular painkiller Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and was unfit for consumption, an Australian court ruled Friday, awarding a man leading a class action suit against the drug's maker 287,000 Australian dollars ($259,000) in compensation. Melbourne Federal Court Judge ...

An Australian judge on Friday found arthritis drug Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attacks and was not fit for sale, opening the way for hundreds of lawsuits against US pharmaceutical giant Merck. Federal Court judge Christopher Jessop awarded 287,000 dollars (259,000 US) to Graeme Peterson, who sued the company after a 2003 heart attack left him unable ...

VIOXX UPDATE: Drugmaker Merck & Co. paid the final $4.1 billion into its $4.85 billion fund to settle roughly 10,000 U.S. claims that withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused heart attacks or strokes. PLAINTIFF PAYOUTS: All claims involving heart attacks suffered by Vioxx users have been processed, and paid or rejected. Claims by a smaller number of patients ...