Celebrex, Celecoxib News

After trying a lineup of medications for her foot pain, Sue Hoaglin of Horton found relief with Celebrex, a drug used to lessen inflammation and pain, and took it as needed for about three years.

Did you know that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Web site says drugs like ibuprofen , Celebrex, indomethacin and diclofenac can cause potentially fatal heart attacks or strokes? The risk is usually low when using these nonster-oidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, to reduce pain, redness, swelling and heat, but the risks increase with ...

Once again the news headlines are full of the risks of pharmaceutical drugs. This time ita s that old staple, acetaminophen, the principle ingredient of Tylenol.

When Tresa Myers' 2-month-old son Jace had a rare tumor on his back the doctors at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center didn't try radiation.

DRUG NEWS MANAGING CHRONIC PAIN Limit NSAIDs for older adults Drastically reduce the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for treating chronic pain in older adults, advises new pain management guidelines from the American Geriatrics Society.

Astellas Pharma Inc. and Pfizer Japan Inc. announced today that "lumbago, scapulohumeral periarthritis, cervico-omo-brachial syndrome, and tendinitis/tendosynovitis" were approved as additional indications for their selective COX-2 inhibitor Celecox on June 17, 2009.

I'm 22, a senior attending Penn State University, and I'll be graduating this December.

Patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip who receive continuous treatment with celecoxib to prevent flare-ups are less likely to experience worsening pain and physical function than are patients on intermittent treatment, researchers announced here at the 10th Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism .

"Out of work" might not have to mean "out of medication." Pfizer has launched a program specifically for the newly unemployed and, as a result, the newly uninsured.

"? a 'Photo by Masterfile When a group of leading geriatric physicians recently released new guidelines that called for virtually eliminating the use of popular medications like ibuprofen for people over 75 with persistent pain, Alfred Anderson, M.D., wasn't surprised.

Longview attorney Ralph Pelaia said he has enjoyed an active life and - three months after hip replacement surgery - is glad he still is able to do so.

Published Online: May 21, 2009 - 12:00:26 AM Pfizer Inc is doing its part to ensure that eligible unemployed individuals still receive their Pfizer medications during the current economic downturn.

A new study finds that individuals who have low expression of the "Celebrex gene," 15-PGDH, are actually resistant to Celebrex treatment when used to prevent colon cancer.

Those with arthritis or any type of chronic pain may have more questions than answers when they look in their medicine cabinets these days.

Q: I've suffered from severe lower back pain since 1964. I was diagnosed with spondylolisthesis, fourth degree.

Main Category: Heart Disease Also Included In: Respiratory / Asthma ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Pain / Anesthetics Article Date: 05 May 2009 - 4:00 PDT In searching for a simple way to identify individuals with smoking-related lung injury, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have stumbled upon a potential explanation for why the class ...

In searching for a simple way to identify individuals with smoking-related lung injury, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have stumbled upon a potential explanation for why the class of pain-relievers known as COX-2 inhibitors increases the risk of heart problems among users.

Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH has successfully applied its Cellular Target Profiling technology to identify the protein kinase mTOR as a new cellular target of celecoxib .

I've suffered from severe lower-back pain since 1964, when I was 14. In 1972, I was diagnosed with spondylolisthesis, fourth degree.

SALES and marketing staff from an international pharmaceutical company who manufactured anti-arthritis drug Vioxx produced a song to "Ricky Martin-type" music titled "Go Vioxx" to help encourage their sales representatives.