Drugmaker Merck & Co. has made its final, $4.1 billion payment into a fund to settle tens of thousands of U.S. claims that withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused heart attacks or strokes, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday. The final payouts ...

One of Dick Cheney's daughters says the former vice president is recovering well from the mild heart attack that sent him to the hospital last week. Liz Cheney says her father is following doctor's orders. Dick Cheney, who's 69, has had five heart attacks — the first when he was 37. Liz Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama called former Vice President Dick Cheney to wish him a speedy recovery as Cheney was recuperating from a mild heart attack, the White House said on Friday. Cheney, 69, was hospitalized in Washington on Monday after suffering chest pains. Lab testing revealed evidence of a mild heart attack. It was Cheney's fifth ...

Surviving five heart attacks makes former Vice President Dick Cheney pretty unusual — showing that he has good medical care as well as a particularly aggressive form of heart disease. But the number, attention-grabbing as it is, isn't the real issue: It's how much damage ...