
for heart disease, according to a new scientific report. In an article in ACS weekly journal Biochemistry , University of Texas's Ke-He Ruan and colleagues point out that the COX-2 drugs like the banned Vioxx have...

with heart disease to be cautious about taking NSAIDs, which include ibuprofen (brand named Advil, Motrin) and diclofenac. The new study is the ... death from all cardiovascular diseases, while rofecoxib (Vioxx) use ...

especially in patients with a history of heart disease or those who are at high risk for heart problems, notes the AHA. Those risks prompted two prescription NSAIDs -- Vioxx and Bextra -- to be withdrawn from the...

anti-arthritic drugs. In October 2003, a year before the Vioxx recall, the Therapeutic Goods Administration warned doctors the drug did have an increased risk of "cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease". It ...

at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. See also: Health & Medicine Heart Disease Stroke Prevention Vioxx Stem Cells Cholesterol Diseases and Conditions Reference Ischaemic heart disease Echocardio...

heart attack and stroke in patients with common risk factors for heart disease. See also: Health & Medicine Heart Disease Vioxx Cholesterol Science & Society Public Health Legal Issues Bioethics Reference...

painkiller Vioxx (rofecoxib) was removed from the market in December 2006...cells, said Dolmetsch. ¡°It would be dangerous and unethical to extract heart cells from a living person with or without cardiac disease,¡± he ...

of heart attack, it was not reasonably fit for the purpose of being used...'s claim that Merck knew or should have known that the drug increased the risk of cardiovascular disease long before it yanked Vioxx from ...

include Cataflam , Voltaren ) is as risky as the now-banned Vioxx. Both diclofenac and Vioxx nearly doubled the risk of death from heart disease among healthy people in the Fosbol study. Although diclofenac is...

hemorrhage. Besides, aspirin belongs to the same class of painkillers as Vioxx, Celebrex and Aleve, all of which were found to increase heart attack and stroke risk by over 50 percent. Tests have shown that abstaini...