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Pfizer's Celebrex gets black box warning and new indication of AS.

Publication: Pharma Marketletter
Publication Date: 08-AUG-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer has received good and bad news from the US Food and Drug Administration; the agency issued new warning labeling for the firm's COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex (celecoxib) but also granted approval for the drug's use in the treatment of signs and symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis that affects the spine.

The black box warning for Celebrex follows the FDA's review of all COX-2s earlier this year (Marketletter February 28), after the withdrawal by Merck &...

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