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		<title>Bextra Lawsuits Filed Against Pfizer in New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Bextra lawsuits were filed against Pfizer Inc. on behalf of three individuals who allegedly were injured by the pain relief drug, Bextra, the Philadelphia law firm Kline &#38; Specter, P.C. announced Monday in a statement.
Two of the plaintiffs suffered heart attacks and one sustained a stroke after taking Bextra, attorneys for the plaintiffs stated.
Pfizer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Law Firm Files Bextra Class Action Lawsuit Against Pfizer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A class action lawsuit was filed against Pfizer Inc., on behalf of all persons who died or were injured by the pain relief drug, Bextra, the Chicago law firm Kenneth B. Moll &#38; Associates, Ltd. announced Monday.
The Bextra lawsuit accuses pharmaceutical giant Pfizer of failing to properly research the known risks of Bextra, warn consumers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorneys Request Bextra Lawsuits be Transferred to Louisiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pfizer Inc., the world&#8217;s largest drug maker, said Thursday it would remove the arthritis drug Bextra from the market. Following yesterday&#8217;s announcement, Louisiana attorneys for Bextra and Celebrex patients asked today a judicial panel in Washington, D.C. to move all Bextra and Celebrex lawsuits in the country to one federal court, the U.S. District Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bextra Pulled From Market in U.S. and Europe, Pfizer Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bextra, the pain relief drug from Pifzer Inc., was taken off the market Thursday because the overall risk versus benefit profile for Bextra is &#8220;unfavorable,&#8221; the Food and Drug Administration said.
Bextra belongs to a class of drugs called Cox-2 inhibitors, including Celebrex (made by Pfizer) and Vioxx (made by Merck &#38; Company). All three painkillers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Citizen Urges FDA to Ban Celebrex and Bextra</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A consumer group petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to remove the arthritis drugs Celebrex and Bextra from the market. The group claims that both painkillers from Pfizer Inc. increase the risk of heart attacks in patients.
Celebrex and Bextra are part of the same family of drugs called COX-2 inhibitors as Vioxx, which was pulled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bextra Label to Include Warning on Heart Attack Risk, FDA Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Powerful&#8221; arthritis drug Bextra from Pfizer will include a new warning about possible heart attack risk when used by patients who recently had heart bypass surgery, the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.
Bextra is part of the same family of drugs, COX-2 selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), as Celebrex also made by Pfizer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Study Links Bextra, Smiliar to Vioxx, to Heart Attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;powerful&#8221; arthritis drug Bextra from drug giant Pfizer increases a patients&#8217; risk of heart attack and stroke, according to preliminary results of a study presented yesterday at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The study found that patients taking Bextra experienced twice the number of heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pfizer Says Bextra May Increase Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pfizer, the world&#8217;s largest drugmaker, on Friday warned doctors that its arthritis drug Bextra might increase the risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attack or stroke, in coronary bypass surgery patients. 
The news comes just two weeks after Merck pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx from all worldwide markets after a study confirmed that it increases [...]]]></description>
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