Dispute flares over medications&#39; safety
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An Oregon man stopped taking the painkiller Vioxx when it was pulled from the market, switching to Bextra. Then questions about Bextra -- and four other drugs -- sent him back to his doctor with a new set of worries.
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Calls for changing the way the government monitors drug safety erupted Friday, as consumer advocates and worried patients zeroed in on testimony that five federally approved medicines posed significant health risks.
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Scientists and European regulators are now questioning the safety of other pain relievers like Vioxx, saying they also might raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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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.
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The food and drug administration, the pharmaceuticals regulator in the United States, was yesterday fighting to head off a crisis in confidence among the American public.
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As Pfizer&#39;s (PFE:NYSE - news - research) Celebrex safety hiccup was unfolding Friday, I had a running conversation with a fund manager.
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New reports suggest another drug company moved too slowly to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s ability to protect the public.
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Scientists in the United States and regulatory agencies in Europe on Wednesdsay questioned whether Celebrex and other pain relievers might raise the same risk of heart problems as those blamed on the arthritis medicine Vioxx.
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The safety of Celebrex and other pain relievers was questioned Wednesday as scientists in the United States and regulatory agencies in Europe said they feared such drugs might raise the same risk of heart problems as those blamed on the arthritis medicine Vioxx.    One key researcher charged the U.S...
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WASHINGTON There&#39;s already controversy erupting around a summit on arthritis drug safety, months before the meeting is set to start.
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People should not automatically stop taking certain painkillers because of warnings about heart attacks and strokes, physicians said yesterday - a day after a fourth popular anti-inflammatory drug was linked to such problems.
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Across the country, doctors are struggling to decide which pain relievers to prescribe now that they know that popular drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex pose potentially serious heart risks.
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It might not just be Vioxx that carries a risk of heart problems. Scientists and European regulators say users of similar pain-relief medications also may have cause for concern.
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New reports accuse another drug company of being too slow to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the ability of the US federal Food and Drug Administration to protect Americans from such risks.
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It&#39;s not been a good year for the Food and Drug Administration â-ith a controversy over the use of antidepressants by children and adolescents, the withdrawal
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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.
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The furor over the safety of arthritis painkilling medications shows no sign of abating. Vioxx is gone from the market, following data linking it to increased cardiovascular risk.