The president spoke at a meeting of a White House advisory panel set up to study the problems facing the middle class and propose solutions.

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This was seen after an advisory panel's February 2005 blessing of painkillers Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx, a class of drugs known as COX-2 inhibitors.

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