Arthritis drug warnings &#39;ignored&#39;
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An arthritis drug should have been taken off the market years before it was finally withdrawn, say researchers. Manufacturer Merck withdrew Vioxx in September after evidence linking it to heart problems.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- Celebrex, a painkiller prescribed to people with arthritis, is still selling well in Shanghai even though US experts recently found an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes for patients taking high dosages of the drug.
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a widely prescribed arthritis treatment - more than doubled patients&#39; risk of heart problems in a clinical study. The announcement, 11 weeks after Merck &amp; Co.
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Pfizer is stopping TV and print ads for arthritis drug Celebrex now that there is evidence it could lead to heart problems. The FDA is considering warning labels for Celebrex, or taking the drug off the market.
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A Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N  promotion for rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade is misleading  because it makes unsupported claims about the drug's  effectiveness and omits important information about risks, U.S.  regulators said in a letter released on Monday.
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Abbott Laboratories Inc. added  several new warnings to the label for its rheumatoid arthritis  drug Humira, according to a company letter released on Monday.
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Leola Brown was just prescribed Celebrex to ease the pain of arthritis and bone spurs in her neck and shoulders. Despite new warnings that Celebrex and other painkillers might
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The findings may be relevant to many people who take aspirin to prevent heart problems as well as a COX-2 inhibitor drug like Vioxx for arthritis.
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Drug stocks across the board fell amid renewed safety concerns over a class of blockbuster drugs used to treat arthritis. Preprint articles published on the New England Journal of Medicine&#39;s Web site Wednesday
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SINGAPORE : Doctors in the United States have warned that painkillers Bextra and Celebrex may be linked to major cardiovascular problems and should not be prescribed.
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The maker of the acne medication Accutane ignored a company doctor&#39;s recommendation that people who take the controversial drug be monitored for signs of depression and that a warning to that effect be added to the drug&#39;s US label, USA Today reported
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Company warns Remicade may up risk of lymphoma, label changed for second time to reflect hazards. NEW YORK  - Johnson &amp; Johnson is warning doctors that patients taking its rheumatoid arthritis drug
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Hundreds of thousands of patients taking three brands of painkillers for arthritis were advised yesterday to see their doctors after new research raised fears of an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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Merck & Co.  on Friday said U.S. regulators have decided not to approve the company's experimental arthritis drug, the successor to its recalled Vioxx pill, until more safety and effectiveness data are obtained.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety  official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled  from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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Most patients who used Celebrex and Vioxx would have done as well on older, cheaper arthritis medications and would have avoided the potential heart and stroke risks of those blockbuster drugs, a new study says.
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With the recent news of heart problems associated with drugs such as Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra, people who suffer from the pain associated with arthritis have difficult choices to make.