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An arthritis drug should have been taken off the market years before it was finally withdrawn, say researchers.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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More evidence suggests UK health advisors ignored warnings which could have prevented haemophilia patients being given contaminated blood.
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When Merck&#39;s arthritis drug Vioxx was withdrawn from the market in September, concerns over drug safety were pretty much under the radar for the most part, but not today.
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NEW YORK  - Treating rheumatoid arthritis with "biologic" immunosuppressive drugs, such as TNF-blockers, neither increases nor decreases the risk of heart attack or stroke compared with use of methotrexate, the most commonly prescribed drug for rheumatoid arthritis, new research indicates.
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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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U.S. drug safety regulators are coming under fire for their response to years of suspicions, confirmed last week, that arthritis drug Vioxx increased the risks of heart attacks and strokes.
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Still reeling from Merck&#39;s withdrawal of Vioxx from the market and Pfizer&#39;s decision to stop advertising Celebrex, people who suffer from arthritis pain now have one more worry: The US Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it was halting a
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ARTHRITIS sufferers were yesterday warned that a widely-used painkiller increases the risk of heart attack and strokes and were urged to contact their doctors.
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The Food and Drug Administration  ignored danger signals from its own scientists about Merck and  Co. Inc.'s Vioxx painkiller, Sen. Charles Grassley told a  hearing Thursday into the drug's withdrawal in September.
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The Food and Drug Administration ignored danger signals from its own scientists about Merck and Co. Inc.&#39;s Vioxx painkiller, Sen. Charles Grassley told a hearing Thursday into the drug&#39;s withdrawal in September.
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This hasn&#39;t been a great year for arthritis sufferers - it hasn&#39;t been a good one for the drug industry or the Food and Drug Administration, either.
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Another arthritis drug was at the centre of an alert today after US officials updated warnings on their labelling. Centocor, a subsidiary of Johnson &amp; Johnson
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A PAINKILLER for arthritis sufferers should have been banned four years ago, experts said yesterday. Vioxx, used by 400,000 Brits, was taken off the market by its US makers last month due to potentially deadly side-effects.
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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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A study of the arthritis drug Celebrex casts doubt on the company's insistence that it had no hint of the drug's potential heart and stroke risks until recently.
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The Food and Drug Administration has told a researcher that he cannot be part of an advisory panel that will meet early next year to review the safety of a class of drugs, COX-2 inhibitors, used to treat arthritis and pain.
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The FDA (USA) says it did not try to suppress the findings of a safety official regarding the Vioxx painkiller. Vioxx was taken off the market last week because the drug increases a patient&#39;s risk of having a heart attack.