Injury News

By Marilynn Marchione, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Getting a headache trying to choose a painkiller?
The government’s advice is to take the lowest possible dose for the shortest possible time, and talk with your doctor about what’s best for you.
No medicine is without risk, but nonprescription pain pills appear safe when taken at the suggested dose [...]

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By: Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif.
With prescription drugs Vioxx and Bextra already pulled from the market, a study has raised disturbing questions about the heart safety of long-term use of over-the-counter pain relievers such as Advil, Motrin and Aleve.
Smokers in Norway who took such drugs for at least six months had twice the risk of [...]

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The FDA has been the object of great criticism in recent months. Some influential members of Congress, including Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), have been pushing for a more independent drug safety office within the FDA.
The FDA, according to some critics, has been ineffective in protecting public safety from dangerous drugs [...]

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Source: PR Newswire
Three Bextra lawsuits were filed against Pfizer Inc. on behalf of three individuals who allegedly were injured by the pain relief drug, Bextra, the Philadelphia law firm Kline & Specter, P.C. announced Monday in a statement.
Two of the plaintiffs suffered heart attacks and one sustained a stroke after taking Bextra, attorneys for the [...]

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Source: Business Wire
A class action lawsuit was filed against Pfizer Inc., on behalf of all persons who died or were injured by the pain relief drug, Bextra, the Chicago law firm Kenneth B. Moll & Associates, Ltd. announced Monday.
The Bextra lawsuit accuses pharmaceutical giant Pfizer of failing to properly research the known risks of Bextra, [...]

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After six months of questions regarding the COX-2 inhibitor class of drugs, including Merck & Co.’s Vioxx and Pfizer Inc.’s Celebrex and Bextra, the FDA has asked Pfizer to remove Bextra from the market.
Though Pfizer said it disagreed with the FDA’s request to withdraw Bextra, the company has stopped sales of its $1.3 billion [...]

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked Pfizer to voluntarily remove Bextra (valdecoxib) from the market. FDA is also asking manufacturers of all marketed prescription Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs), including Celebrex (celecoxib), a COX-2 selective NSAID, to revise the labeling (package insert) for their products to include a boxed warning, highlighting the potential for [...]

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Health Advocates Call for Reform of FDA Advisory Committees
Source: Center for Science in the Public Interest

“Stop placing scientists with direct financial conflicts of interest” on Food and Drug Administration advisory committees, health advocates wrote in a letter to Acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford.
In the letter dated March 10, 2005, the groups said the agency [...]

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According to a Spine-health.com poll, nearly two-thirds of patients who were taking a COX-2 inhibitor, which includes Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx, prior to the September 2004 Vioxx recall and Celebrex and Bextra adverse cardiovascular studies that followed in the months after are no longer taking the medications.
The poll included 375 back pain patients who [...]

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Source: New York Times
Hundreds of Vioxx lawsuits, individual and class actions, will be consolidated in a federal court in New Orleans before Judge Eldon E. Fallon, favored by many plaintiffs’ lawyers, the New York Times reported last week.
The lawsuits filed against Merck & Company allege death and heart problems from taking its pain relief drug [...]

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