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3/22/2006 4:06:00 AM | Bill would make results of clinical drug trials public 
=(0) A Minnesota law could force pharmaceutical companies to disclose all of the information relating to their clinical trials, good and bad, to the public. Currently, drug makers must submit three seperate clinical trials to the FDA before they can get approval for distribution, but some rare side effects are not identified until after widespread distr...
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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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3/9/2006 12:09:00 PM | Merck Jurors Hear Doctor Who Took Vioxx, Had Attack =(0) The ugly side effects of Vioxx and similar Cox inhibitors were revealed first-hand from a doctor who not only prescribed the medications, but was taking it himself. Dr. John Braun is sued Merck for his heart attack in 2004 after taking Vioxx for almost 2 years. Cardiologists subsequently removed a very large clot from Dr. Braun's heart which, the ...
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3/2/2006 4:07:00 PM | Pfizer Disputes New Zealand Celebrex Heart Attack Link Study =(0) Celebrex, like Vioxx, may cause a high incidence of heart attacks, a recent New Zealand study found. Celebrex is a Cox-2 Inhibitor, developed to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. Cox-2 inhibitors, despite their excellent history with pain relief, and lack of stomach related side effects, have been linked with a large increase in th...
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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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3/1/2006 5:41:00 AM | FDA Shields Drug Companies From Lawsuits =(0) The FDA is working to protect drug companies from lawsuits in state courts asserting that if a drug has been approved on a federal level, a state court without the "same scientific knowledge" is not the place for judgement. This announcement follows other actions by the Bush administration aiming to limit the number of lawsuits against drug compani...
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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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2/21/2006 11:01:00 AM | Jury Clears Drug Maker Merck in First Federal Vioxx Case =(0) Merck sealed an important victory as they won the first federal court case over the painkiller Vioxx. The jury ruled that the drug maker was not responsible for the death of a Florida man because he had numerous risk factors for heart attack and had only been taking Vioxx for one month.
Although it has been proven that Merck was not entirely up...
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