US drug giant halts Celebrex advertising
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Drug giant Pfizer is to stop advertising its best-selling arthritis pain reliever Celebrex after a study showed high doses of it were associated with an increased heart attack risk.
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Doctors writing in a prominent medical journal on Friday recommended that physicians stop prescribing Pfizer Inc.'s Bextra painkiller, just as a large study found the drugmaker's sister drug, Celebrex,  doubled risk of heart attacks.
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Pfizer is pulling its radio, TV, newspaper and magazine advertising for Celebrex in the wake of a study that links high doses of the popular arthritis to an increased risk of heart attack, but the company plans to keep Celebrex on the market.
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Pfizer plans to immediately stop advertising Celebrex, its best-selling arthritis pain reliever, to consumers after a study linked it to an increased risk of heart attacks.
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Merck Labs has pulled Vioxx, their arthritis drug, off the market after discovering during trials the possibility of a link to stroke or heart attack.
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The Food and Drug Administration has asked the maker of cholesterol-lowering medication Crestor to stop running an advertisement that makes &quot;false or misleading&quot; claims about the drug&#39;s safety.
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Drug giant Pfizer Inc. reiterated Thursday that its arthritis drug Celebrex was safe to use after competitor Merck &amp; Co. pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx off the market worldwide after studies showed it raised the risk of heart attack.
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Pfizer Inc. has agreed to suspend its advertisements for arthritis drug Celebrex while U.S. regulators review new data that link the drug to an elevated risk of heart attacks, a Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said on Sunday.
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Pfizer (PFE:NYSE - news - research) was treading water Monday morning, hovering around its 52-week low amid reports that it plans to halt advertising of its embattled painkiller Celebrex.
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Pfizer Inc. on Friday said a government-sponsored cancer-prevention trial of its blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex was halted after patients taking it had more than
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Researchers in the US have halted a government study involving a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug known as Naproxen, brand Aleve, after data indicated possible increased heart risks associated with the painkiller.
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Drug company Pfizer has pulled its advertising of arthritis drug Celebrex following a study suggesting it could cause heart attacks and strokes.
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PFIZER, the drugs group best known for producing Viagra, has suffered a collapse in US sales of its blockbuster Celebrex painkiller on the back of clinical trials showing a heightened risk of heart attacks.
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The arthritis drug Vioxx, used by  millions of people around the world, is being pulled off the  market after a study confirmed long-standing concerns that it  raises the risk of heart attack and stroke, the manufacturer,  Merck & Co. MRK.N, said on Thursday.
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Pfizer Inc.âs disclosure of a study linking Celebrex to heart attacks, such as Merck &amp; Co.âs withdrawn Vioxx, means demand for the drugs once known as âsuper aspirin
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Under pressure for more data on the long-term safety effects of its Intrinsa testosterone patch, Procter &amp; Gamble Co. has withdrawn its application to the US Food and Drug Administration to market the patch.
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Citing the &quot;interests of patient safety,&quot; US drug manufacturer Pfizer said it was stopping all clinical trials of the cholesterol-controlling drug Torcetrapib.