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FDA Stands Up For Vioxx

Added October 5th, 2006

Officials have criticized the way that the Food and Drug Administration has been standing up for the controversial painkiller Vioxx, which was shown to increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, and was withdrawn from the market in 2004 by the manufacturer, pharmaceutical giant Merck Inc.

Other similar drugs came under fire too, such as Bextra, and also Celebrex, which remained on the market but was given a black box warning with regards to its side effect – which is the strongest FDA warning there is.

In 2004 one of the agency’s top scientists became known as a whistle blower after spilling the beans on vioxx and on the FDA. David Graham had stated: "It is clear that Vioxx increases the risk of heart attack, and that increase in risk begins with the first tablet a patient takes."

Mike Adams, a consumer health advocate, stated: "It is amazing that FDA politicians go to such great lengths to try to discredit the carefully-researched conclusions of one of the agency's top drug safety scientists. The FDA is at war with good science and this war is producing countless casualties among American consumers who naively believed the FDA was trying to protect their health."

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