FDA Issues Celebrex, Bextra Advisory
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The US Food and Drug Administration is recommending physicians limit prescriptions for popular painkillers known as Cox-2 inhibitors after recent studies suggested they may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration has warned Pfizer Inc.  that television and  print advertisements for its painkillers Celebrex and Bextra  misled consumers, according to a letter made public on  Wednesday.
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BOSTON - 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
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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trials showed heart bypass surgery patients taking  Bextra, an anti-inflammatory in the same class as the recently  withdrawn drug Vioxx, had a higher risk of stroke and heart  attack.
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The arthritis drug Bextra will begin carrying a warning on the label about possible heart and blood-clotting problems, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday.
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Pfizer Inc.  said on Friday it is sending additional information to healthcare professionals about its arthritis drug Bextra, a COX-2 product in the same class as the withdrawn drug Vioxx.
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Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. is in talks with  regulators over a likely change to arthritis drug Bextra's  label to warn doctors about the risk of a potentially deadly  skin reaction, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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Pfizer warned doctors yesterday that one of its best-selling painkillers, Bextra, might increase the risk of heart attack or stroke in coronary artery bypass surgery patients.
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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.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration warned Pfizer Inc. over television and print  advertisements for its painkillers Celebrex and Bextra, saying  they mislead consumers, according to a letter made public on  Wednesday.
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Description: Americans have recently learned that four popular painkillers -- Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra and naproxen -- have been linked to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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US health regulators recommended on Thursday that doctors limit prescribing painkillers like Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra, in light of recent evidence that they may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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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 White House says the Food and Drug administration is doing a &quot;spectacular&quot; job. Really? The FDA didn&#39;t respond to warning signs that block-buster painkillers like Celebrex and Vioxx increased the risk of heart attacks.
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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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Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Bextra will come with a new warning about possible heart and blood clotting problems when the drug is used by patients who have just had heart bypass surgery, the US Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.
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The spotlight is likely to be on Pfizer on Wednesday when federal drug regulators begin hearings on cox-2 drugs, the medicines that include Celebrex and Bextra.