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...edge medications. (These included a calcium-channel blocker and an ACE inhibitor). Then there's the sad lesson of Vioxx and its ilk. That category of painkillers captured a $5 billion-a-year market on the celebrated promise that they were safer than older, cheaper analgesics like Tylenol or Advil. In this case, as the nation learned when Vioxx and Bextra were withdrawn and Celebrex got slapped with a black-box warning, we were paying a premium to trade a sizable risk of tummy trouble for a smaller but still troubling risk of heart attacks and strokes...
...Advil, Motrin...
BEXTRA Like the other COX-2 pain relievers, Pfizer's Bextra doesn't work any better than Advil but may be easier on the stomach. Reports suggest Bextra may sometimes cause blood-pressure problems; Pfizer is working with the FDA to get to the bottom of the matter...
...than they should, according to a study presented at the American Headache Society's annual meeting last week. In a survey of nearly 700 children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 who had been referred to the Cleveland Clinic because of chronic headaches, 22% were using pain relievers like Advil, Aleve and Tylenol as often as 15 to 20 times a week, and 1 in 7 was taking the medication without telling a parent. Experts caution that overuse of such drugs can lead to "rebound" headaches as well as kidney problems and gastrointestinal bleeding. They suggest that kids take...
EMMA THOMPSON: I think Hugh is quite hung over. [Grant, with a box of Advil, groans...