Comments from readers about Vioxx
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More than 35 Enquirer readers have called or e-mailed comments about the five drugs that were criticized Thursday by an expert with the US Food and Drug Administration.
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NEW YORK - In the wake of Merck&#39;s Vioxx debacle, doctors are scrambling to understand why the drug doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes--and how to know if other medicines carry similar risks.
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Swiss researchers reported Thursday in an international medical journal that evidence was clear and overwhelming in 2000 that Vioxx doubled the rate of heart attacks, and Merck &amp; Co.
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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Scrutiny of other pain relievers urged over fear they, too, may lead to heart problems. By Marilynn Marchione. Momentum was growing for a fresh look at the safety of Celebrex and other pain relievers as key
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Since Vioxx was withdrawn from the market in September, Olga Morales has been feeling the pain. Without medication, she said, her osteoarthritis feels like &quot;having a constant toothache all over your body.
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NEW YORK - Since Merck&#39;s Vioxx was pulled from the market for increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke in a long-term study, there has been heated debate over whether other, similar medicines, such as Pfizer&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra, carry similar risks
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Oct. 6, 2004 - 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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When pharmaceutical giant Merck &amp; Co. abruptly pulled its arthritis pain medication Vioxx from the marketplace on Sept. 30, more than 2 million patients were taking the drug.
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Description: A voluntary withdrawal of Vioxx from the market is the latest in a string of safety issues for the drug market. Dr. Alistair Wood, of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, says the serious dangers
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Risks of first, nonfatal myocardial infarction was tripled with rofecoxib, compared with celecoxib users, Annals study shows. To determine whether and to what extent COX-2-selective inhibitors affected individuals
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Less than six weeks after Vioxx was pulled from pharmacy shelves because of evidence it increased a patient&#39;s risk of heart attack or stroke, some researchers are raising
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When news broke Sept. 30 that Merck pulled its blockbuster anti-inflammatory pain reliever Vioxx, a collective sigh was heard across the nation.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md.  - U.S. scientific advisers  began hearing evidence on Wednesday about the benefits and  risks of pain killers taken by millions of Americans as  regulators weigh moves following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of  its arthritis pill Vioxx.
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Arthritis patients who use pain-relief medications similar to Vioxx may have cause for concern. Merck, the maker of Vioxx, pulled it from the market when it said research had found it doubled the risk of heart problems.
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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. But the problems with Vioxx raise questions about the Food and Drug Administration's safety review process and the length of time it took Merck to pull the drug, observers say...
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Responding to continuing criticism that it mishandled internal warnings that the painkiller Vioxx had deadly side effects and that antidepressants were