Experts urge public to avoid panic over painkillers
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As people worried about about painkillers after more warnings of potential heart risk, local and national experts advised pain sufferers not to panic.
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By Alice Dembner and Stephen Smith, Globe Staff | December 22, 2004. Doctors urged consumers yesterday not to overreact to the potential heart risks of naproxen, saying they are skeptical about research findings
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Cancer patients were urged not to worry today following a shortage of the common painkiller used to treat those suffering from the disease.
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According to Dr. Mark Fendrick, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, the take-home message from the current scare over pain drugs is this: No matter
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Tens of thousands of people may have been seriously harmed by the painkiller Vioxx, and many more may be at risk from taking other popular drugs of the same class, known
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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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It is no surprise that many Americans who rely on painkillers to ease their way through the day feel lost at the moment. Not only have Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra, the only three drugs in a class thought to
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NEW YORK - At the end of Pfizer&#39;s annual analyst meeting, Chief Executive Hank McKinnell dropped a bombshell. Older, over-the-counter pain medicines may not be safe for the heart, McKinnell said, because there
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Doctors and public health officials must weigh the benefits of knowledge against the risk of alarm.
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Authorities are bracing for a crime wave by people cut off from painkillers after the arrest of a doctor suspected of repeatedly prescribing OxyContin with few or no questions asked.
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An effort to ease tensions over the use of morphine-based painkillers has backfired -- leaving many doctors and patients more fearful than before that they could be arrested for practicing what they consider good medicine.
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Users of an anti-arthritis drug linked by a study to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes are urged not to panic.
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Federal health officials cautioned Tuesday the tens of millions of Americans who take popular over-the-counter pain pills of their potentially serious side effects and released planned label changes intended to warn of the sometimes deadly risks.
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Several local family-practice doctors spent much of Tuesday fielding telephone calls and questions about two widely used pain relievers that might - or might not - raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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NEW YORK  - When patients feel they might be having an adverse drug effect, doctors will very often dismiss their concerns, a new study shows.
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Doctors prescribing opioids in doses that seems high to narcotics agents and prosecutors are at risk of a trial. And once in the courtroom, anything can happen.
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Doctors are struggling to decide which pain relievers to prescribe now that they know that drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex pose serious heart risks.