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6/6/2006 3:02:00 AM | Celebrex Trial Is Delayed 
=(0) There has been a postponement for the first lawsuit against Pfizer for medical conditions allegedly caused by its Cox-2 class of painkiller drugs. A judge requested the delay to allow more gathering of information about Celebrex, which is suspected of causing the Alabama plaintiff's stroke in 2005. Unlike Vioxx, Celebrex has not been withdrawn...
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4/25/2006 7:07:00 PM | Conflicts of interest in FDA committees =(0) This article examines a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association which examined the incidence and impact of conflict of interest occurrences on FDA committees. The agency issued new guidlines for disclosure in 2002 and these do seem to be followed; however the rate of recusal from voting decisions is low and there...
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3/16/2006 7:22:00 AM | Gateway and Pfizer sued for $1.1 million. =(0) Gateway Regional Medical Center, located in Granite City, Illinois, is the recipient of a 21-count medical malpractice suit for the death of a patient in it's waiting room. Betty Coonrod sat waiting for assistance in the emergency room of Gateway Regional suffering from heart attack symptoms. Despite the urgency, Ms. Coonrod passed away while bein...
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3/14/2006 4:23:00 AM | Bextra - What Did Pfizer Know? - Everything =(0) With sales in 2004 topping 1.3 billion dollars, Pfizer may have been more hesitant to remove a medication like this from the shelves. Thanks to an aggressive marketing campaign, sales almost doubled from 2003 to 2005, creeping up from 395 million dollars to the 1.3 billion figure. Initially prescribed for pain, Pfizer told doctors to prescribe Bex...
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3/13/2006 3:43:00 PM | Pfizer sued for Bextra in St. Clair County =(0) The widow of a man who took Bextra and suffered a heart attack filed suit in St. Clair, Illinois alledging that a faulty design of the drugs was to blame for her husband's death. Arlene Keller-Wilson said her husband began use of Bextra in late 2002, less than one year after the drug's release onto the market. Without signs or warning, Robert Wils...
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3/1/2006 6:07:00 AM | Study finds Celebrex doubles heart attack risk =(0) According to a recent New Zeland medical report, the Cox-2 Inhibitor Celebrex poses greater risks than imagined, increasing heart attackes by a multiple of 2.26 times. Even more interesting is the fact that report further supports the fact that the class of medications, Cox II inhibitors, may be the culprit-- a family of medication to which Bextra...
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2/27/2006 4:33:00 PM | First Celebrex lawsuit going to trial =(0) A woman who had a stroke in 2005 while taking Celebrex, a Bextra sister-medication, is suing Pfizer. The trial is set for June 6th, 2006 and follows in the footsteps of the Merck lawsuits. In those lawsuits, Merck lost one and won two cases. Bextra is in the same family of medications, the Cox-2 inhibitors, that have been linked to high occurance...
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