Celebrex

Melton's mix of Apple and energy delivers 2005 return of 72 ...  15 Jan 2006
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Pfizer Inc., hampered by its warning that pain management drug Celebrex causes increased heart risks, lost 10.6 percent and was the worst performer among the ...

Will cherry juice end pain of gout?  15 Jan 2006
Charlotte Observer, ...joint diminished also. I've been able to reduce my use of Celebrex from 400 mg/day to 200 mg/day and still have less pain.". Q. I ...

Celebrex's Toughest Trial  Dec 15, 2005
TIME A competitor made by Pfizer, Bextra, was yanked some months later, leaving only Pfizer's Celebrex behind—and a new, required safety warning hasn't exactly ...

Pfizer sponsors major Celebrex safety study  Dec 15, 2005
Pharma Times (subscription), Pfizer is gambling on a 20,000-patient study that it hopes will prove once and for all that its COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex (celecoxib) is effective and no more ...

Does Celebrex Have A Future At All?  Dec 20, 2005
Corante, I have a correspondent who's written me a few times about the Vioxx/Celebrex/NEJM situation, and I thought I'd pass along some of his thoughts. ...

Saving Celebrex  Dec 13, 2005
Forbes ...of academic researchers to meet with the US Food and Drug Administration to discuss a gigantic clinical trial to try to prove that low doses of Celebrex do not ...

Pfizer's Search for an Answer on Celebrex  Dec 13, 2005
BusinessWeek Pfizer (PFE ) is taking a big gamble in its bid to revive the beleaguered painkiller Celebrex. On Dec. 13, Dr. Steven E. Nissen ...

Pfizer Plans Study of Celebrex for Heart Risks, Clinic Says  Dec 13, 2005
Bloomberg ...will pay for a study of 20,000 patients to determine the potential heart risk of its Celebrex painkiller, a similar drug to Merck & Co.'s Vioxx, which was ...

Pfizer Plans Study of 20,000 Patients on Risks of Celebrex  Dec 13, 2005
New York Times, The study will compare the number of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and strokes, in those taking Celebrex and two other commonly used ...

Pfizer to Finance $100 Million Safety Study of Celebrex  Dec 13, 2005
New York Times, By STEPHANIE SAUL. Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant, is betting big on the safety of its cox-2 painkiller, Celebrex. The company ...

Safety of Celebrex, other painkillers to be tested  Dec 13, 2005
MSNBC That left Pfizer Inc.’s Celebrex as the only available cox-2 inhibitor, drugs that became blockbusters because they were gentler on the stomach than older ...

Pfizer will fund clinic's study on heart risks of Celebrex  Dec 13, 2005
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), ...will pay for a study of 20,000 patients to determine the potential heart risk of its Celebrex painkiller, a similar drug to Merck & Company's Vioxx, which was ...

Pfizer will fund study on safety of Celebrex  Dec 14, 2005
International Herald Tribune, NEW YORK Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant, is betting big on the safety of its cox-2 painkiller, Celebrex. The company has agreed ...

Pfizer to fund independent trial on Celebrex and heart risks  Dec 14, 2005
News-Medical.net, Drug company Pfizer Inc., the maker of Celebrex, will pay for an international study of 20,000 people. The study will compare the ...

Pfizer Funds $100 Million Study On Cox-2 Inhibitors Celebrex  Dec 14, 2005
Medical News Today, Pfizer, the makers of Celebrex, a cox-2 inhibitor for people with arthritis, is to fund a $100 million study into the safety of its own drug, Celebrex. ...

Pfizer to fund safety study of Celebrex  Dec 14, 2005
New Ratings Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc (PFE.NYS) plans to finance a study of 20,000 patients to determine the potential heart risk of its cox-2 painkiller, Celebrex. ...

An Expensive Way Back for Celebrex  Dec 14, 2005
Corante, Pfizer's going to pull out the stops and spend up to $100 million to try to show that their COX-2 drug Celebrex is worth it. And ...

Pfizer To Finance Long-Term Safety Study Of Celebrex Estimated To ...  Dec 14, 2005
About - News & Issues, Pfizer, maker of the only remaining COX-2 inhibitor on the market in the United States, has announced it will finance a long-term safety study of Celebrex. ...

Women sought in cancer study  Jan 13, 2006
Cincinnati Enquirer, A national study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute aims to find out if the mechanism that allows celecoxib, or Celebrex, to ease pain by stopping ...

What conventional and natural medicines have in common  Jan 13, 2006
Australian, ...it is equally effective at relieving pain in this condition as the widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen and the Cox-2 inhibitor Celebrex ...

Study touts targeted drug ads  Jan 11, 2006
Daily Pennsylvanian, One of its direct competitors, Celebrex, which works by the same mechanism, remains on the market but carries the Food and Drug Administration's most severe ...

Pfizer is getting an overdose of generics  Jan 8, 2006
Sun-Sentinel.com, ...remedies for common ailments. Among them were Celebrex for pain, Zoloft for depression and Viagra for impotence. Its key weapon ...

Here we go, down the hole, chasing a Part D drug plan  Jan 14, 2006
Newsday, But a 30-day supply of most brand-name maintenance drugs (such as Celebrex, Paxil, Lipitor, Cardizem and Pravachol) for which there are no generics, carries co ...

Health Canada bans Bextra  Jan 11, 2006
Quesnel Cariboo Observer, ...“The only one that’s left is Celebrex. ... Celebrex is not as strong as Vioxx, said Leung, and doesn’t cause as many problems if the correct dosage is taken. ...

People's Pharmacy: Anti-inflammatory drugs may cause ...  Jan 14, 2006
Bryan College Station Eagle, Drugs like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra were supposed to ease pain without causing the gastrointestinal problems associated with traditional NSAIDs. ...

Strange Goings On at the Cleveland Clinic: Mere Coincidences or ...  Dec 19, 2005
Newsinferno.com, Disclosures Cast Doubt on the World-Famous Clinic’s Reputation for Credibility and Independence as It Embarks on Pfizer’s $100 Million Celebrex Safety Study ...

Drug's impact on cervical cancer studied  Jan 11, 2006
Cincinnati Business Courier, ...cancer. A Phase 2 trial will test the effectiveness of celecoxib (Celebrex) in stopping the disease in its precancerous stage. The ...

News and views  Jan 10, 2006
The South African Journal of Natural Medicine (subscription), Vioxx has already been taken off the market, followed by Bextra, and even Celebrex is being fingered. None of this is surprising. ...

Largest/Most Diverse Pipeline: Pfizer  Jan 10, 2006
R&D Directions (subscription), ...emphasis on developing replacements. Under attack are market giants Lipitor, Viagra, Bextra, and Celebrex. Pfizer also strives to ...

(PRN) Toward the Future of Cancer Prevention; Can Most Types of ...  Dec 16, 2005
Houston Chronicle, Celecoxib, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) known by the trade name Celebrex(r), reduced the number of colon polyps in people who have familial ...

Can most types of cancers be prevented ?  Dec 24, 2005
Xagena.it, Robert Bresalier helped lead this national effort. - Celecoxib, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ( NSAID ) known by the trade name Celebrex, reduced the ...

New warning over arthritis drugs  Jan 6, 2006
Daily Mail - UK, Since then similar doubts have been raised about another leading coxib, Celebrex, which was associated with a doubling of risk of major heart or artery ...

Genes may explain some COX-2 drug risks  Jan 4, 2006
MSNBC In April, Pfizer Inc. suspended sales of its COX-2 inhibitor Bextra and now includes a strong "black box" warning for its COX-2 Celebrex. ...

Whirled Peas  Jan 4, 2006
Neosho Daily News, Imagine my surprise when I got one from a law firm asking if I'd ever taken Bextra, Celebrex or Vioxx and experienced any number of side effects, including ...

Problems with painkillers may be genetic  Jan 4, 2006
United Press International A study, published in the January issue of the journal Gastroenterology, looked at people taking two popular painkillers -- Vioxx and Celebrex -- known as COX ...

Genetics Plays Role in Side Effects Associated With Painkillers  Jan 5, 2006
EndoNurse, The study looked at people taking two popular painkillers --rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck) and celecoxib (Celebrex, Pfizer) -- known as COX-2 inhibitors. ...

Pfizer funds $100M painkiller safety study  Dec 15, 2005
myDNA.com, The study will assess Celebrex - Pfizer's Cox-2 inhibitor - and two non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID's) - Ibuprofen and Naproxen. ...

Major Painkiller Trial to Start  Dec 15, 2005
ABC News The trial will focus on three drugs — ibuprofen (Advil/Motrin), naproxen (Naprosyn or Alleve) and celecoxib (Celebrex) — all of which belong to the class ...

Stem Cell Project Scandal Is Disturbing but Hardly an Uncommon ...  Dec 25, 2005
Newsinferno.com, Of the 32 government drug advisers who would vote on the issue, 10 had consulted for Merck (Vioxx) or Pfizer (Celebrex and Bextra) in recent years.While the ...

Bird Flu Threat Tops Health News for '05  Dec 29, 2005
Forbes The US Food and Drug Administration allowed the third cox-2, Pfizer's Celebrex, to remain on the market, albeit with a strong "black-box" warning label ...

Over-the-counter pain drugs increase death risk  Dec 20, 2005
Macleans, Compared with people who did not take NSAIDs, those who took more than 200 milligrams a day of the COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex had four times the risk of dying. ...

Clinical trial on painkillers  Dec 20, 2005
The News Journal, The trial will focus on three drugs -- ibuprofen (Advil/Motrin), naproxen (Naprosyn or Aleve) and celecoxib (Celebrex) -- all of which belong to the class of ...

Lipitor patent win boosts Pfizer shares  Dec 19, 2005
BusinessWeek Lipitor isn't the only Pfizer product with an uncertain future. Sales of pain reliever Celebrex plunged 45 percent for the nine months to $1.3 billion. ...

Scientists plan huge painkiller risk study  Dec 14, 2005
Boston Globe, ...with heart risks -- people typically excluded from clinical trials -- around the globe to determine the safety and effectiveness of Celebrex, ibuprofen, and ...

Health officials won't revive arthritis drug  Dec 16, 2005
Toronto Star, ...in Canada. The drug falls into the same controversial class of drugs as Vioxx and Celebrex, known as cox-2 inhibitors. Vioxx, once ...

`Good science' to study pain pills and heart woes  Dec 15, 2005
Toronto Star, ...heart attack or stroke. That left Pfizer Inc.'s Celebrex as the only available cox-2 inhibitor available. The drugs became blockbusters ...

Lessons from Vioxx  Dec 19, 2005
Boston Globe, It would compete with Pfizer's Celebrex as a prescription medicine to relieve the pain of people with arthritis and other chronic pain conditions. ...

Supplements help mend, not mask, pain  Dec 20, 2005
Newsday, When top prescription pain relievers (like Vioxx or Bextra) are pulled from the market because of fatalities, and serious doubts shroud Celebrex and other ...

Lipitor Patent Win Boosts Pfizer Shares  Dec 19, 2005
Leading The Charge, Lipitor isn‘t the only Pfizer product with an uncertain future. Sales of pain reliever Celebrex plunged 45 percent for the nine months to $1.3 billion. ...

Dow awakens, passes 11,000  Jan 9, 2006
Houston Chronicle, ...but a fair share of agitation about the company's expiring patents, a lack of new drugs, falling Viagra sales and safety concerns about painkiller Celebrex. ...

Dow hits 11,000 in overdue catch-up  Jan 10, 2006
Seattle Times, ...have had less drama but a fair share of worrying about expiring patents, a lack of new drugs, falling Viagra sales and safety concerns about painkiller Celebrex ...

Bextra is latest cox-2 drug to be barred in Canada  Dec 16, 2005
Hamilton Spectator (subscription), Better known cox-2s are Celebrex, which is still sold, and Vioxx, which was pulled from worldwide markets in late September 2004. ...

Class Action Suit Says Depo-Provera Birth Control Drug Causes ...  Dec 21, 2005
Lifesite, ...been filed against the drug company Pfizer, an international pharmaceutical conglomerate that also produces the prescription drugs Viagra, Zoloft and Celebrex. ...

Top medical stories of 2005  Dec 30, 2005
WHDH-TV, Yet another arthritis drug bit the dust - Bextra was pulled after the FDA noted the medicine was no better than a similar drug Celebrex, and was more likely to ...

Virginia's Ryan determined, defiant in long shadow of cancer  Dec 26, 2005
WVEC.com (subscription), ...of her Charlottesville surgeon, Dr. Rayford Scott Jones; a hidden, benevolent quirk in her genetic makeup; the fact that she began taking Celebrex as a pain ...

Dow index breaks 11,000 barrier  Jan 10, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle, Both companies are beset by lawsuits -- Merck over Vioxx and Pfizer, to a lesser extent, over Celebrex -- and a desperate need to come up with new blockbuster ...

Even at 11,000, old, gray Dow isn’t what it was  Jan 10, 2006
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription), ...for investors who worry about the company’s expiring patents, a lack of new drugs, falling Viagra sales and safety concerns about painkiller Celebrex. ...

Dow just 'catching up'  Jan 10, 2006
Pioneer Press, ...have had less drama, but a fair share of agita, worrying about the company's expiring patents, a lack of new drugs and safety concerns about painkiller Celebrex ...

Value stock manager trusts in Pfizer  Dec 21, 2005
Dailyrecord.com, ..."Pfizer is remarkably cheap for a growth company.". What about the litigation about side effects of Celebrex? Pfizer isn't accused ...

Dow hits 11,011.9, highest since ’01  Jan 10, 2006
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription), ...have had less drama, but worry about the company’s expiring patents, a lack of new drugs, falling Viagra sales and safety concerns about painkiller Celebrex. ...

Pearls of Conventional Wisdom  Jan 10, 2006
Smartmoney.com I've been wrong about pharmaceuticals before, but how can 2006 be worse than 2005, with its continuing fallout from the Vioxx and Celebrex debacles? ...

Meghan Fitzgerald Joins Vion's Senior Management Team  Jan 10, 2006
PR Newswire (press release), Management, where she led a team responsible for implementing a ten-year lifecycle plan for various pharmaceutical products including Celebrex, a multi-billion ...

The Cox-2 Controversy: Health Risks of Arthritis Drugs  Dec 13, 2005
The Lookout News, Millions of Americans live with the pain of arthritis and, until recently, painkillers such as Vioxx and Celebrex have been the modern remedy of choice. ...

Cleveland Clinic To Lead Large Study on Safety, Efficacy of COX-2 ...  Dec 14, 2005
Kaiser network.org, New York Times reports. Pfizer, which manufactures the COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex, will fund the study. According to Steven Nissen ...

Pfizer gains on increase to dividend  Dec 13, 2005
Providence Journal (subscription), Meanwhile, the drugmaker also says it will finance a study to determine the potential heart risk of Celebrex and two generic pain pills. ...

Court Rules for Pfizer in Lipitor Patent Case  Dec 17, 2005
All Headline News ...to a raft of problems. Sales of Pfizer’s Celebrex have been cut almost in half due to safety concerns. Revenue from Bextra was ...

Bextra's return barred by Health Canada  Dec 17, 2005
London Free Press, ...inhibitors. Better known cox-2s are Celebrex, which is still sold, and Vioxx, which was pulled from worldwide markets in September 2004. ...

Medicare drug program just not healthy  Dec 23, 2005
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The cheapest price under any of the Medicare plans studied was 44 percent higher: $717. The VA paid $619 for a year's supply of Celebrex. ...

Health Canada Bans Sale of Bextra  Dec 18, 2005
Newsinferno.com, Pfizer has announced Celebrex is about to undergo new safety testing while the company’s other COX-2 inhibitor, Bextra, was removed from the market in April ...

Dosage is key with acetaminophen  Dec 16, 2005
Biloxi Sun Herald, A: Acetaminophen (Tylenol and other brands) is very safe when used properly. The Vioxx you took is a COX-2 NSAID (others are Bextra and Celebrex). ...

Medical advances involve trade-offs  Dec 16, 2005
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, ...over Vioxx. And Pfizer announced a major new study to determine whether its pain reliever, Celebrex, does or does not carry dangerous side effects. ...

Painkiller Study Aims to Answer Safety Questions  Dec 14, 2005
MedPage Today, The drugs are Celebrex (celecoxib), Motrin (ibuprofen) and Aleve (naproxen). The trial, which could cost $100 million, is being ...

FDA Overlooking Serious Prescription Side Effects  Dec 20, 2005
WLNS, ...for atopic dermatitis or psoriasis or other ecsema conditions like Elidel, the last being cox-two inhibitors, which are pain medications like Vioxx or Celebrex ...

Alternative therapies offer headache relief  Dec 23, 2005
myDNA.com, Though many factors have contributed to the rise in use, the controversy surrounding pain relief medications such as Celebrex and Vioxx certainly has some ...

Study to test safety of painkillers on heart patients  Dec 13, 2005
USA Today The study will pit Celebrex, naproxen and ibuprofen against one another in 20,000 patients in the USA, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Australia. ...

iNOS-based inflammation pathway is cross-linked with COX-2 pathway  Dec 27, 2005
Xagena.it, ...found to cross-link with the more well-known COX-2 pathway that is the target of COX-2 inhibitor drugs such as Vioxx ( Robecoxib ) and Celebrex ( Celecoxib ). ...

Landmark study tests safety of painkillers  Dec 14, 2005
DetNews.com, ...disease. Which drugs: Pfizer's Celebrex and over-the-counter ibuprofen (Motrin, Aleve) and naproxen (Naprosyn, Aleve) will be tested. ...

Study aims to clear up confusion on painkillers  Dec 13, 2005
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, The study will focus on the drugs Motrin, Advil, Naprosyn, Aleve and Celebrex. ... That left Celebrex as the only available Cox-2 inhibitor. ...

Clinic-led trial to look at safety of painkillers  Dec 14, 2005
Cleveland Plain Dealer, ...lead a worldwide clinical trial of about 20,000 patients to assess the safety of some of the most commonly used pain relievers: Motrin, Naprosyn and Celebrex. ...

Study to weigh painkillers' safety  Dec 14, 2005
Seattle Times, ...a heart attack or stroke. That left Pfizer's Celebrex as the only available Cox-2 inhibitor. Cox-2 inhibitors became blockbusters ...

Researchers plan large-scale study on safety of painkillers  Dec 13, 2005
WLNS, That leaves Celebrex as the only available cox-2 inhibitor. ... The study will test Celebrex and two types of drugs known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. ...

A large study will test the safety of various painkillers for ...  Dec 13, 2005
FoxReno.com, ...risk of a heart attack or stroke. That leaves Celebrex as the only available cox-2 inhibitor. Those types of drugs became popular ...

Clinic to lead trial of painkilling drugs  Dec 13, 2005
Crain's Cleveland Business, Precision Trial, the study will examine the safety of ibuprofen, marketed as Motrin; naproxen, known as Naprosyn or Aleve; and celecoxib, also known as Celebrex ...

Scientists searching for safe pain-relief drug  Dec 13, 2005
WIS, Celebrex, Motrin and Aleve are three of the most common pain relievers for arthritis. ... Pfizer, which makes Celebrex, is paying for this study. ...

Study on Safety of Pain Killers  Dec 14, 2005
WLNS, Drugs like Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex became popular because they were gentler on the stomach than older pain relievers, but those drugs have been at the ...

Bird Flu, Cloning, Katrina: Top Health Stories of 2005  Dec 27, 2005
FOX News ...off the market. That leaves only Celebrex to represent the new class of pain pills once billed as "super aspirin.". These drugs, known ...

Breakthroughs, tips and trends  Jan 6, 2006
Times Online, ...in the British Medical Journal, indicated that long-term use of the two drugs examined in the Pennsylvania report, Vioxx and Celebrex, increases the risk by 32 ...

Getting the Specifics on Generic Drugs  Jan 5, 2006
Forbes In contrast, Celebrex -- the remaining cox-2 inhibitor painkiller on the US market -- "has a lot of time left" on its patent, he said. ...

ADHD Drug Cardiac Events, COX-2s Are Topics For Drug Safety ...  Jan 5, 2006
FDA Advisory Committee Bextra in April. Pfizer’s other COX-2 product Celebrex has remained on the market with added warnings to labeling. The committee ...

Post-marketing drug studies become norm  Dec 26, 2005
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Pfizer is paying for a study to determine whether its pain reliever Celebrex leads to more heart problems than other pain relievers. ...

Ages change for assistance  Jan 6, 2006
Scottsboro Daily Sentinel, Senior Rx often helps facilitate savings for the purchase of drugs like Celebrex, Mobic, Toprol, Norvasc, Nexium, and Prevacaid. ...


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