These drugs can be defective due to side effects that were not discovered due to improper or inadequate testing or for the failure to warn about side effects that were known to the manufacturer. Faraci Lange is currently heavily engaged in pursuing Vioxx claims against the manufacturer of this medication, Merck. Steve Schwarz, one of the partners at Faraci Lange has written an extensive article on the Vioxx story that was published in the Winter 2005 edition of Voir Dire magazine, a publication of the American Board of Trial Advocates. For a PDF of this article click here.