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View Post: Individual Response to COX-2 Inhibitors Affected By Genes ...
5 Jan 2006 by Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD  
Controversial COX-2 inhibitors, such as Vioxx, Celebrex, and Bextra, have been implicated in an increased risk of heart attacks. Genes may explain as much as 30 percent of the variation in individual responses to these pain killers. ...
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View Post: Deadlier than Cocaine, Heroin, and the Swine Flu? « NARMER'S PAGE
15 hours ago by narmer  
flu, influenza, H1N1, hihi, HIHI, swine flu, plague, black death, painkillers, cox 2 inhibitors, pain killers, opioidsAddiction to prescription painkillers — which kill thousands of Americans a year — has become a largely unrecognized ...
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View Post: CELEBREX
1 Nov 2009 by Sil  
In a landmark study to assess the overall long-term safety of the COX-2 specific inhibitor Celebrex™ (celecoxib capsules), arthritis patients taking four ... BOCUSE D OR Report serious adverse cardiovascular thrombotic periods is due to ...
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View Post: Altered reactivity to norepinephrine through COX-2 induction by ...
26 Oct 2009 by Foudi, N., Norel, X., Rienzo, M., Louedec,...  
These observations suggest that the local induction of COX-2 during atherosclerosis decreased the sensitivity to norepinephrine and that COX-2 inhibitors may increase vascular reactivity at sites of atherosclerotic lesions. ...
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View Post: Multicenter Phase II Trial of Combination Therapy with Meloxicam ...
2 Nov 2009 by Shinohara, N., Kumagai, A., Kanagawa, K.,...  
Multicenter Phase II Trial of Combination Therapy with Meloxicam, a COX-2 Inhibitor, and Natural Interferon- {alpha} for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Nobuo Shinohara1, Akira Kumagai2, Kouichi Kanagawa3, Satoru Maruyama1, ...
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View Post: Gastrointestinal Safety of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs and ...
27 Oct 2009 by Cheetham, T C., Levy, G., Niu, F., Bixler, F.  
Two observational studies have been published that look at the safety of selective COX-2 inhibitors in patients taking warfarin; the results of these studies are inconsistent.28,29 Although 2 selective COX-2 inhibitors were withdrawn ...
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View Post: Study: Short-term use of COX-2 inhibitors may help prevent gastric ...
30 Oct 2009 by admin  
Elevated expression of COX-2 is observed in a wide variety of human malignancies, including gastric cancer. Long-term high dose COX-2 inhibitors can inhibit gastric carcinogenesis in animal models, but the possible life-threatening ...
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View Post: Sound Medicine: The Next Generation of Cox-2 Inhibitors
20 Nov 2005
Since then, two contradictory verdicts have raised questions about the future of cox-2 inhibitors. In one, a Texas jury awarded more than $250 million dollars to the widow of a man who took Vioxx. In the other, a jury in New Jersey ...
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