Eliminating Painkillers - Naproxen To Follow Vioxx, Celebrex

[Guest guest]

21 Dec 2004 12:01:58 -0000

 

Health Supreme Update: Eliminating Painkillers - Naproxen To

Follow Vioxx, Celebrex

 

sepp Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book

 

Health Supreme Update: Eliminating Painkillers - Naproxen To Follow

Vioxx, Celebrex

 

December 21, 2004

 

 

------

 

Management of chronic pain is getting more difficult - at least

the much touted chemical route seems to be turning into a

rather rocky path, with several of the " blockkbuster "

painkillers showing stunning rates of increase of heart trouble

after Vioxx was recently withdrawn from the market. According

to a recent Health News article, the FDA has just halted a

clinical trial involving Naproxen, as signs emerged that the

drug seems to be a cause of increasing heart trouble just like

its cousins. Of course this brings us to a painful question:

Should we at all routinely " manage pain " or is it perhaps time

to look at underlying mechanisms, to...

 

------

 

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/12/21/eliminating_painkillers_naproxen\

_to_follow_vioxx_celebrex.htm

 

 

 

 

--