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Philadelphia Inquirer - It took seven years from when we first predicted that [pain relievers] Vioxx and Celebrex would cause heart attacks for the evidence to accumulate" at the FDA and and for Vioxx to be removed from the market, said FitzGerald, who was instrumental in ...

House panel meets to dissect FDA, its chief

New York Times - Ledger said patients with low production of inflammatory blockers are often helped by Cox-2 inhibitor drugs like Celebrex (though Vioxx , which is no longer marketed, worked better). Others find relief with drugs used off-label, like low-dose ...

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CBS News - Celebrex and Celexa. They sound awfully similar, but one is used for arthritis pain, and the other to treat anxiety and depression. There are documented examples of people's health being harmed when they've taken one when they should have gotten the ...

Harm From Drug Name Mix-Ups "Intolerable"

PhysOrg - Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have discovered biomarkers that predict which patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer will respond to a combination treatment of the anti-inflammatory drug Celebrex and the growth factor ...

Researchers discover biomarkers that predict lung cancer patient ...

Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Celebrex, an arthritis drug in the same class as the recalled painkiller Vioxx, caused irregular heartbeats in fruit flies and in heart cells taken from laboratory rats, U.S. researchers said on Friday. "When we tried this drug on ...

Celebrex disrupts heart rhythm in fruit flies

Science Daily - ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2008) — Celebrex, a popular arthritis drug that blocks pain by inhibiting an enzyme known as COX-2, has been shown in laboratory studies to induce arrhythmia, or irregular beating of the heart, via a novel pathway unrelated ...

Popular Arthritis Drug May Disrupt Heart Rhythm, New Research Finds

Long Beach Press-Telegram - ... strange sitting at home when spring training begins in a couple of weeks. "The only thing I think I'll miss is the competition," Lieberthal said. "But I won't miss the grind and what it takes to get into shape, the surgeries, the Vicodin, the Celebrex

Dodgers catcher Lieberthal retires

Phramalive.com - ... billion each year on over-the-counter analgesic drugs. Although NSAIDs are widely used to treat acute and chronic inflammatory disorders, some (Advil(R)) are limited by toxicity to the gastrointestinal (GI) system while others (Celebrex(R), Vioxx(R ...

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Science Daily - ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2008) — When low back pain strikes, many people turn to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), like naproxen and ibuprofen, or their newer COX-2 inhibitor cousin Celebrex. However, these drugs work no better than old ...

NSAIDs No Better Than Other Over-the-Counter Drugs for Low Back Pain

Marketwatch - Quarterly sales of Celebrex, which have been rebounding in recent quarters, were up 18% at $637 million. The pain reliever belongs to the same class of drugs as Merck's Vioxx, taken off the market more than three years ago over safety concerns

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