NEWS - Celebrex Trial Stopped After Heart Attacks

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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.

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