http://legalnewsline.com/news/216732-pfizer-settles-with-34-states-over-celebrex-bextra-marketing

Legal Newsline ^ | 10/22/08

[jasonmyos]

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline)- Pfizer Inc. has settled with 34 state attorneys general over complaints that the pharmaceutical company illegally marketed its Bextra and Celebrex medications.

Pfizer has agreed to pay a $60 million settlement to resolve the enforcement action against it and its subsidiary, Pharmacia, Inc.

Celebrex and Bextra are Cox-2 inhibitors, were illegally marketed to treat acute surgical pain, while the medications were only approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat common pain and inflammation.

[Lx]

Ah Celebrex and Bextra, both gave me ulcers about a year apart. They did work though.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Can't take NSAIDS, they tear me up. One problem with the suing of some pharmaceutical companies were demands by homosexual groups to push medications through the pipelines faster. Even at the experimental level.

That doesn't excuse obvious cover ups of dangerous products; all I'm saying is that sometimes things aren't always what they seem.

Also physicians prescribe drugs for things not listed in literature.