It will be an especially important meeting for Pfizer , which makes Celebrex and Bextra.
Hassan's second major goal is to wean the company from its reliance on Celebrex.
Celebrex's marketers, until now, have taken the high road, emphasizing Celebrex's strong safety record.
So far, experiments that use Celebrex to fight cancerous and pre-cancerous growths are promising.
Novartis is taking the bold move of actually comparing its drug to Celebrex and Vioxx.
Also in 2004, Gibofsky co-authored a trial that concluded patients prefer Celebrex to Tylenol.
Some analysts have argued, however, that risk for naproxen would bode well for Pfizer on Celebrex.
In the Alzheimer's study, though, there was no increase in heart risk for long-term Celebrex users.
Celebrex is also being tried in conjunction with Camptosar as a treatment for colorectal cancer.
The news about Celebrex was not the only bombshell dropped on the drug industry today.
Then he did back-of-the-envelope calculations that assembled the available data on Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx.
Therefore, it is hoped that Celebrex will be safer than other NSAIDS for long-term use.
Concerns had lingered for years that both Vioxx and Celebrex might be linked to heart problems.
But the drug could be as important as the company's current bestseller, the arthritis treatment Celebrex.
The follow-up to arthritis treatment Celebrex makes it through the FDA six months ahead of schedule.
That could give Pharmacia reason to celebrate, as many Vioxx users would probably switch to Celebrex.
Vioxx hit the market shortly after Celebrex did and the two drugs have since competed brutally.
Pfizer Chief Medical Officer Joe Feczko had already defended Pfizer's arthritis medicines, Celebrex and Bextra.
Right now, neither Vioxx nor Celebrex is approved for use in treating generalized colorectal cancer.
The Celebrex worries never gained much steam, but more studies started to accumulate questioning Vioxx's safety record.
Because of the worries about Celebrex and the problems holding onto patients, the Alzheimer's study was halted.
The results came from a trial called Adapt, testing naproxen and Celebrex as preventatives for Alzheimer's disease.
It is possible, Nissen says, that Celebrex could be safe at its labeled dose of 200 mg.
Celebrex is the first of a new kind of painkiller called COX-2 inhibitors to get FDA approval.
But unlike other NSAIDS, Celebrex does not cause serious stomach problems or deadly ulcers with long-term use.
It also said that Celebrex and a related drug, Bextra, from Pfizer should continue to be sold.
If Prexige is more powerful than Vioxx and Celebrex, it will give Novartis a significant marketing advantage.
One drug that has managed to escape a lot of the bad news has been Pfizer's Celebrex.
Merck has portrayed its drug as a true one-a-day, while Celebrex is taken once or twice a day.
When Merck yanked Vioxx, investors at first thought Pfizer, which made rival drugs Celebrex and Bextra, would profit.
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