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Group calls on the FDA to ban Celebrex, Bextra

January 24, 2005

Public Citizen consumer group has been involved in identifying unsafe or ineffective drugs long before federal agencies issued warnings and/or drug recalls.

Merck & Co. issued a recall of its arthritis painkiller Vioxx last September after linking the drug in a clinical study to increased risk of heart attacks. Vioxx was the ninth prescription drug to be taken off the market in the past seven years that the consumer group had previously warned consumers not to use. For four of the drugs eventually taken off the market, Public Citizen issued warnings more than two years before they were removed, including Vioxx, Baycol, Rezulin and Serzone.

Belonging to a class of drugs called COX-2 inhibitors, the Vioxx recall left Pfizer Inc.'s two painkillers, Celebrex and Bextra, the only two remaining drugs of the class. Similar heart attack concerns about Celebrex and Bextra have since been raised, leading Public Citizen to petition the FDA today to immediately remove the widely prescribed drugs from the market.

Neither the FDA nor Pfizer Inc. has immediately responded to requests for comment on Public Citizen's petition.

For more information on the recent Bextra and Celebrex ban, please contact us to confer with a Celebrex Lawyer or Bextra Lawyer and learn your legal rights and options.

 

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