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Pfizer said yesterday that it continued to believe that Celebrex, which has been prescribed for more than 26 million patients, is safe and that it had no plans to stop selling the drug.
It is unclear how many Celebrex cases had already been filed, even before yesterday's announcement. Pfizer puts the number at 24, but Beasley Allen, a law firm in Montgomery, Ala., said it alone has 53 cases filed.
Consumer advocates and some doctors have been arguing that the COX-2 drugs not only pose greater health risks than the manufacturers have said but that their therapeutic benefits in comparison with much cheaper over-the-counter painkillers have been exaggerated.
Celebrex: Lawyer: Monheit Law: Side Effects: Heart Attack: Vioxx: FDA Safety Fallout
But many lawyers, even those who have sued Merck on behalf of patients who took Vioxx, said yesterday that there are clear-cut differences. The case against Pfizer does not appear as strong at this point, they said, because major clinical studies suggest that Celebrex does not pose as great a risk as Vioxx. Nor have any documents yet emerged, as they did at Merck, suggesting that Pfizer had doubts about its drug.
Ask Monheit Law, "Do I have a Celebrex Case?"
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Michael Monheit, Esquire, Monheit Law, PC
