Vioxx was OKd for kids
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Weeks before pharmaceutical giant Merck &amp; Co. sent seismic waves through the medical community, pulling its painkiller Vioxx off the market, it announced the drug had been approved for children.
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Pfizer Inc.'s pain  reliever Celebrex should be approved for treating rheumatoid  arthritis in children despite uncertainty about the risks of  long-term use, U.S. advisers said on Wednesday.
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When pharmaceutical giant Merck &amp; Co. abruptly pulled its arthritis pain medication Vioxx from the marketplace on Sept. 30, more than 2 million patients were taking the drug.
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A new study finds that close to 80 percent of children in U.S. hospitals are receiving drugs that have been approved only for grownups. The growing problem of âoff labelâ prescriptions.
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HOW MANY PILLS are you taking? Until the Vioxx scare, it wasn&#39;ta question that bothered many. Now with Celebrex and even generic naproxen joining the list of questioned meds, it&#39;s a timely inquiry.
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WASHINGTON The first new cancer drug in ten years that is specifically designed to help children is a step closer to approval. An advisory panel at the Food and Drug Administration is recommending the use
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(KRON) -- There are more safety concerns about painkillers after the parents of a 7-year-old Los Angeles girl sued the makers of Children&#39;s Motrin.
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Drug company Merck has removed its painkiller Vioxx because of data showing an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Suspicions that the arthritis drug Vioxx could cause serious cardiovascular damage arose as early as 1999, the year Vioxx was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a next-generation remedy that might be safer than older drugs like ibuprofen.
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Americans should feel reasonably safe taking government-approved prescription drugs - with a few caveats - even after a popular arthritis medication was pulled from the market, medical experts say. But the problems with Vioxx raise questions about the Food and Drug Administration's safety review process and the length of time it took Merck to pull the drug, observers say...
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The then 6-year-old&#39;s parents gave her the recommended dose of a drug that they thought they could trust: Children&#39;s Motrin manufactured by drug giant Johnson and Johnson.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The US Food and Drug Administration could not force Merck to perform safety studies of arthritis drug Vioxx after it hit the market in 1999, but the agency successfully &quot;negotiated&quot; the long-term studies that uncovered Vioxx&#39;s heart
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&quot;We were wrong about Vioxx, but you can trust us on all those other meds,&quot; the FDA seems to be saying. If you enjoy this article, you may also be interested in an article entitled &#39;The FDA remains in state of denial about drug safety questions.
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Many desperate parents dealing with depressed or out-of-control kids have found that medication has helped bring some normalcy to family life.
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(CBS/AP) Vioxx, the blockbuster arthritis drug heavily promoted on TV and taken by tens of millions of people, was pulled from the market by its maker Thursday after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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Merck &amp; Co.&#39;s Vioxx painkiller showed heart risk in studies four years before the drug was recalled, and it should have been pulled from the market then, according to a study published in the medical journal Lancet.
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J&J gains pediatric approval of its antipsychosic drug.