News tagged with 'Celecoxib'

A new Swiss study on the effects of COX-2 inhibitors reveals the medications may play a major role in the prevention of heart disease. As part of a 14-person study at the University of Zurich, researchers distributed Celebrex, a COX-2 inhibitor used to treat arthritis, to patients taking cardiovascular disease prevent

A new report published in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that users of the arthritis medication Celebrex are not as protected from bleeding ulcers as once believed. According to the report, at the conclusion of a recent six-month study, which analyzed data from 287 patients who had a p

The FDA has approved labeling changes for Celebrex (celecoxib) based on the results of the Celecoxib Long-term Arthritis Safety Study (CLASS). CLASS was a prospective double-blind randomized safety trial that evaluated approximately 4000 patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with Celeb

A fifty-two year-old man who was prescribed celecoxib, also known as celebrex, died recently from an allergic reaction to the drug. French researchers from Hospital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, described the case in last week's issue of The Lancet. The patient, currently unidentified, developed an angioedema, an aller

Drug makers Merck and Pharmacia are denying charges that the companies' popular arthritis drugs, Vioxx and Celebrex, may cause serious side effects. Both firms defend the benefits of their products and do not believe that safety tests requested by the American Heart Association, the National Stroke Association and the

The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published the results of a study linking the popular arthritis drugs Celebrex and Vioxx to an increased risk of stroke and heart attack. The popular cox-2 inhibiting drugs are marketed heavily and are increasingly prescribed. Researchers analyzed four studie

Cleveland Clinic researchers are reporting that two popular arthritis drugs may cause blood clots, heart attacks, and strokes. The researchers analyzed several studies in which at least 18,000 people took the cox-2 inhibiting drugs Vioxx or Celebrex for pain relief. In patients taking the medications, researchers fou