"Pfizer Inc. wants to put its second-generation COX-2 drug Bextra back on the market but lawyers for patients who contend they were harmed by the drug warn it was approved too hastily in the first place.
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"The pharmaceutical giant voluntarily suspended sales of the $1 billion-a-year anti-inflammatory painkiller April 7, one day after a 19-page Food and Drug Administration memo raised concerns of possible health risks of COX-2 inhibitors, the class of painkillers touted as being easier on the stomach lining than aspirin. Bextra, Pfizer's second generation COX-2 after the success of Celebrex, was prescribed for treatment of arthritis, rheumatism and menstrual pain." [Science Daily]
