Re: NEWS - Celebrex Trial Stopped After Heart Attacks

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Well this is scary since I took both vioxi (I am drawing a complete blank on

spelling this) and celebrex.

Glad I stopped taking both, since I had problems with these drugs.

Lynn

wrote:

> Pfizer Celebrex Trial Stopped After Heart Attacks

>

> Fri Dec 17, 2004 09:48 AM ET

>

> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. on Friday said patients taking its

> blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex in a long-term cancer-prevention

> trial had more than twice the number of fatal or non-fatal heart attacks

> as those taking a placebo.

> The New York-based drugmaker said patients in the trial, sponsored by

> the National Cancer Institute, are no longer being given the drug, one

> of Pfizer's biggest selling medicines, because of the unfavorable

> findings.

>

> It said Celebrex was not shown to increase heart risk in a second trial

> to see if the drug could prevent cancer of the colon.

>

>

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=OHO30VGVGB3SGCRBAELCFEY\

?type=topNews & storyID=7125963

>

>

>

> I'll tell you where to go!

>

> Mayo Clinic in Rochester

> http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

>

> s Hopkins Medicine

> http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Well this is scary since I took both vioxi (I am drawing a complete blank on

spelling this) and celebrex.

Glad I stopped taking both, since I had problems with these drugs.

Lynn

wrote:

> Pfizer Celebrex Trial Stopped After Heart Attacks

>

> Fri Dec 17, 2004 09:48 AM ET

>

> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. on Friday said patients taking its

> blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex in a long-term cancer-prevention

> trial had more than twice the number of fatal or non-fatal heart attacks

> as those taking a placebo.

> The New York-based drugmaker said patients in the trial, sponsored by

> the National Cancer Institute, are no longer being given the drug, one

> of Pfizer's biggest selling medicines, because of the unfavorable

> findings.

>

> It said Celebrex was not shown to increase heart risk in a second trial

> to see if the drug could prevent cancer of the colon.

>

>

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=OHO30VGVGB3SGCRBAELCFEY\

?type=topNews & storyID=7125963

>

>

>

> I'll tell you where to go!

>

> Mayo Clinic in Rochester

> http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

>

> s Hopkins Medicine

> http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

>

>

>