A new use for a common painkiller. A medication prescribed to treat pain appears to have the power to keep cancer at bay. Celebrex is an anti-inflammatory used to alleviate symptoms of arthritis, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who took a newer type of pain pill over a three-year period were less likely to develop polyps that could lead to colorectal cancer -- but at the expense of a higher ...

Meloxicam is a steroid medication that is usually taken once repeatedly for price for celebrex, rheumatoid arthritis, and would rheumatoid arthritis. Meloxicam can reach vary levels in the blood up to ...

Results of two major long-term clinical trials presented today in Washington D.C. at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research showed that Pfizer’s COX-2 inhibitor, Celebrex (celecoxib ...

Millions of people have taken Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra for pain. These new COX-2 inhibitor drugs were prescribed for a variety of conditions, including arthritis, muscle strains and bad backs. Then ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ads for Pfizer Inc.'s Celebrex arthritis drug are set to splash across U.S. television screens on Monday after more than a two-year hiatus, with an unusual upfront focus on its ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising doctors to consider alternatives to pain reliever Celebrex in the wake of a study that showed it increased the risk of heart attack and strokes at ...

Pfizer Chief Executive Hank McKinnell said Sunday doctors should be made aware of the health risks in prescribing Celebrex to their patients, but the company does not plan to recall its popular ...

The maker of the best-selling arthritis drug Celebrex will not be allowed to claim that its product is safer for the stomach and digestive tract than older, less expensive arthritis medicines, the ...

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators Thursday ordered reviews of dozens of ongoing patient studies of the prescription painkillers Celebrex and Bextra in light of findings that both drugs may increase the ...

It’s been a painful 15 months both for people with arthritis and for the companies that make their painkilling drugs. The once high-flying anti-inflammatories known as cox-2 inhibitors nearly crashed ...

Painful surgical adhesions may be preventable by taking the COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex®, a common oral arthritis drug, just before and immediately after surgery, report researchers at Children's ...