HoustonChronicle.com - Pharmacy: Arthritis patients caught in drug bind (VIOXX, COX-2 inhibitors)
"For 66 million people with arthritis or joint pain, treatment has never been more confusing. A few years ago, they were told that a new generation of medications (COX-2 inhibitors) would be safer than the drugs they used to take.Then Merck, the maker of Vioxx, pulled this popular pain reliever off the market because it was found to cause heart attacks and strokes." (Read here for more)
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