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  • Celebrex Approved for Children

    Christina Cole | January 10, 2007 9:58 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

    Federal approval has been granted to Pfizer Inc. to market the painkiller Celebrex as treatment for thousands of children that suffer with a devastating form of arthritis. The approval allows the New York company to promote the drug for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in patients that are two years of age and older. The drug is already used off-label by many doctors as the treatment for the...

  • Drug In Same Class as Bextra and Vioxx Approved For Use in Children

    Staff Writer | December 27, 2006 11:11 AM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

    Pfizer has received federal approval to market Celebrex, its Cox-2 inhibiting painkiller, as a treatment for Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA). JRA affects tens of thousands of children, and other treatments have seen limited success or resulted in severe side effects.The decision comes after FDA advisers recommended Nov. 29 the drug as an effective but not necessarily safe treatment for the...

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