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COX-2 Inhibitors

February 23, 2005 | ISSUE 41•08

The FDA is currently deciding whether to restrict the use of COX-2 inhibitors, the widely used class of pain drugs which includes Vioxx. What do you think?

  • Jesus, a couple people's hearts explode, and everyone goes nuts.

    Sylvia Drake
    Podiatrist

  • I'm confused. How did they separate the effects of Vioxx from the other 1,372 things that give Americans heart attacks?

    Carson Bloom
    Systems Analyst

  • I hope the invisible hand of capitalism is trained in CPR.

    Joe Moran
    Plasterer

  • Hey, what about all the horrible side effects these drugs don't cause?

    Eric Baumgartner
    Sound Producer

  • I wondered why that Celebrex TV ad showed an old guy in the middle of a sun-drenched wheat field having a heart attack.

    Pat Adkins
    Prison Guard

  • They're gonna ban COX-2 inhibitors? But that's my third-favorite class of painkillers.

    Lisa Layman
    Urban Planner

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