Doctors Say Avoid Pfizer's Bextra -Medical Journal
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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 drug maker's sister drug, Celebrex, doubled risk of heart  attacks.
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The Food and Drug Administration has warned Pfizer Inc. that advertisements for its painkillers Celebrex and Bextra misled consumers.
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Pfizer Inc. said on Wednesday that a  report in The New York Times draws "unsubstantiated  conclusions" about the safety of its painkiller Bextra.
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U.S. health officials Thursday called on doctors to limit prescribing Pfizer Inc. painkillers Celebrex and Bextra in light of recent evidence that they may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Professor Garret A FitzGerald, an eminent cardiologists, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, says doctors should be cautious about using Vioxx type medicines, especially if the patient is at risk of heart disease.
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Kaiser Permanente has stopped dispensing Bextra, an arthritis and pain drug made by Pfizer that may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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US regulators warned yesterday of possible heart risks with Pfizer&#39;s Bextra, delivering another blow to popular pain drugs cox-2 inhibitors such as Vioxx, withdrawn from the market by Merck in September.
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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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OTTAWA - Health Canada is warning people about heart and skin problems associated with the painkiller Bextra. Bextra (valdecoxib), which is used to treat arthritis and menstrual pain, belongs to a class of
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Nov. 10, 2004 (New Orleans) -- A leading heart researcher says the painkiller Bextra increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes and may pose a greater risk than Vioxx.
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U.S. health regulators recommended  on Thursday that doctors limit prescribing painkillers like  Pfizer Inc.'s Celebrex and Bextra, in light of recent evidence  that they may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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The withdrawal of Vioxx from the market in September and more recent concerns about its cousin Bextra have raised safety questions about this entire class of painkillers
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Pfizer Inc. PFE.N on Friday said two  small clinical trials showed heart bypass surgery patients  taking Bextra, an anti-inflammatory in the same class as the  recently withdrawn drug Vioxx, had an increased risk of stroke  and heart attack.
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Pfizer Inc. on Friday said two small clinical trials showed heart bypass surgery patients taking Bextra, an anti-inflammatory in the same class as the recently withdrawn
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered the review of preventative studies involving Pfizer Inc.&#39;s painkillers Celebrex and Bextra, in light of recent evidence they may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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CelebrexÂ®, VIOXXÂ®, and BextraÂ®, products of, respectively, Pfizer, Merck, and Pfizer, are COX-2 inhibitors, meaning that they suppress the expression of the COX-2 enzyme that is normally
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Thursday ordered the review of preventative  studies involving Pfizer Inc.'s painkillers Celebrex and  Bextra, in light of recent evidence they may increase the risk  of heart attack and stroke.