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Were Bad Celebrex Results Swept Under the Rug?

  • February 01, 2005

Did Pfizer knowingly conceal a study that casts its controversial COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex in an unfavorable light? The Public Citizen's Health Research Group (PCHRG) seems to think so. They accused the pharmaceutical giant yesterday of hiding a study that found patients were more likely -- 3.5 times in fact -- to suffer from a stroke, heart attack or other cardiovascular problems. Sidney Wolfe of the PCHRG notified the FDA that his group, not so surprisingly, had found the lost study...