Consumer advocates urge pulling 2 drugs off market
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The Food and Drug Administration should immediately yank Celebrex and Bextra from the market to protect Americans from the drugs' heart risks, according to a petition filed with the agency yesterday by Public Citizen. The petition also requests that the FDA freeze applications for Arcoxia and Prexige -- two painkillers under development -- for the same reason.
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Now that Merck has removed Vioxx from the market, drugs in the same class - both available and awaiting approval - are undergoing renewed scrutiny.
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Merck and federal officials should have withdrawn the painkiller Vioxx from the market as early as 2000 because studies of the drug had clearly shown that it doubled the risk of heart attacks
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Drug companies rushing to fill the vacuum left by Merck &amp; Co.&#39;s withdrawal of its best-selling arthritis drug Vioxx are flooding the airwaves with competing
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British drugmakers are launching a legal  challenge to moves by the state-run National Health Service to  switch large numbers of patients onto cheap generic  prescription medicines.
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An estimated 2 million Americans are taking the blockbuster pain reliever Vioxx, which is being withdrawn from the market because of concerns about heart attacks and strokes.
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Doctors were bombarded with phone calls from worried patients following the announcement last week that drug manufacturer Merck had pulled its popular arthritis drug, Vioxx, from the market because of safety concerns.
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Two television advertisements for  Pfizer Inc.'s PFE.N impotence drug Viagra should be withdrawn  for claiming a return of sexual desire and omitting  key  information, the Food and Drug Administration said in a letter  to the company released on Monday.
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Watchdog group Public Citizen on   Wednesday called for U.S. regulators to pull Cyberonics Inc.'s   depression treatment from the U.S. market, claiming the company   has not proven that the electronic stimulator device is   effective.
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Drug companies are bombarding GPs with promotional materials and inducements, campaigners say.
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The recent Vioxx withdrawal and  testimony from an FDA insider accusing the agency of failing to  protect public health are fueling such heightened concern over  drug safety that valuable medicines could be kept from  patients, doctors said on Friday.
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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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British drugmakers are launching a legal challenge to moves by the state-run National Health Service to switch large numbers of patients onto cheap generic prescription medicines.
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Health care advocates, providers and FDA officials over the weekend &#39;sparred&#39; over alleged problems with the FDA prescription drug safety review process and the safety of five medications currently on the market, after an FDA safety reviewer on Thursday
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Concern over the recently publicized risks of drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex has left doctors and patients with difficult choices.
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A campaign is launched to get members of the public to report any side-effects from medicines.
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European medical regulators have called on the worldâs leading pharmaceutical companies to improve their communications with authorities and surveillance of drugs, following frustration about Merckâs handling of the withdrawal of its anti-inflammatory