I WAS delighted to learn from Eoin English’s article that CIT Students Union had launched a week of activities dealing with many aspects of safety, particularly road safety (The Irish Examiner, March 6).

A JURY yesterday awarded $9 million (€7.4m) in punitive damages to a man who blamed his heart attack on Vioxx, finding that manufacturer Merck failed to warn about the risks of its arthritis drug and misrepresented the risks to physicians.