The next Vioxx trial is on-deck

Merck vs the grandmother:

Merck & Co. will be back in court in Atlantic City, New Jersey, next week as the next Vioxx liability trial gets under way with the drug maker facing a 68-year-old grandmother who blames the withdrawn pain drug for her 2004 heart attack.

Elaine Doherty says she used Vioxx daily for three years to treat pain from arthritis of the hands and knees, and even continued to take the medicine after suffering a heart attack in January of 2004.