Pfizer to Halt Advertising of Celebrex to Consumers
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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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WASHINGTON, Dec 23  - US regulators called Thursday for use of Pfizer&#39;s painkilling drugs Celebrex and Bextra to be limited, urging doctors to keep in mind indications of higher heart attack and stroke risks.
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U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc  said on Wednesday a New York State court ruling related to litigation over the company's anti-inflammatory drug Celebrex may cause many cases to be dismissed.
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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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NEW YORK -- Consumer group Public Citizen is calling on the government to ban the drug Celebrex. On Friday, drug maker Pfizer said the arthritis painkiller could increase the risk of a heart attack or a stroke if taken in very large doses.
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The Food and Drug Administration issued a public health advisory Thursday, recommending doctors limit the use of Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra to patients who can&#39;t take other pain medicines.
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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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Consumers should not take Actra-Rx, a product advertised as a natural impotence treatment that actually contains the ingredient in Pfizer Inc.
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Pfizer (PFE) said Friday that it has received new information about the cardiovascular safety of its popular arthritis drug Celebrex, based on an analysis of a long-term cancer trial, but it has no plans to withdraw the drug.
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Some analysts are betting Pfizer Inc.  PFE.N won't have to withdraw its arthritis drug Celebrex but  they do expect sales to fall after a study of the drug in  cancer patients showed it increased the risk of heart attacks.
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Pfizer Inc. says it will immediately pull advertising for its top-selling arthritis pain reliever Celebrex, whose safety was called into question last week after a study found an increased risk of heart attacks in patients taking high dosages of the drug.
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A day after Whitehouse Station-based Merck abruptly withdrew from the market Vioxx, its blockbuster arthritis drug, Pfizer yesterday moved to promote Celebrex, its competing medicine.
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Doctors should limit use of Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra pain drugs while regulators continue to weigh their cardiovascular risks, the US Food and Drug Administration said.
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New prescriptions for Pfizer Inc.&#39;s arthritis drug Celebrex fell 56 percent last week after the company released data showing the drug may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, according to Verispan, a market research company
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A government-sponsored trial of Pfizer  Inc.'s PFE.N blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex was halted  after patients taking the medicine had more than twice as many  heart attacks as patients taking a placebo, the company said on  Friday.
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. will  announce plans for a large-scale clinical trial of the ability  of blockbuster drug Celebrex to prevent heart attacks and  strokes in patients with cardiovascular disease, the Wall  Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Television advertisements promoting Pfizer Inc.&#39;s impotence drug Viagra omit key information and should be withdrawn, the US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) said in a letter to the company released on Monday.