Celebrex Lawsuit

The first Celebrex lawsuit was filed in the United States against the drug's maker Pfizer on December 29, 2004. This Celebrex lawsuit was filed in Illinois as a possible class action suit for patients taking Celebrex who have not suffered physical injury. The plaintiffs claim that the manufacturer, Pfizer, negligently marketed Celebrex despite the fact that side effects were so severe that no reasonable pharmaceutical company would have continued to market this drug.

This particular Celebrex lawsuit refers to risks discovered in a recent clinical trial suggesting that patients taking Celebrex are more at risk of suffering serious cardiovascular side effects caused by Celebrex use. The National Cancer Institute designed a study to measure the effectiveness of Celebrex use in preventing colorectal and other cancers. The clinical trial was suspended after research indicated that patients taking 400 milligram doses of Celebrex were 2.5 times more likely to suffer heart attack or stroke, and patients taking 800 milligrams were 3.4 times more likely to suffer adverse cardiovascular events as compared to the control group.

The Wall Street Journal published an article about ten deaths that have been linked to Celebrex use right after the drug was approved. Gastrointestinal bleeding was the cause of death in half of these cases. Two of these deaths were caused by heart attack, one for kidney failure, one for drug interaction complications, and the last cause of death was unknown.

Pfizer denied any potential link and insisted that Celebrex use was safe and they did not take any further measures to assess these potential risks in order to protect patients from potentially deadly side effects. They have however stated that they plan to investigate the nature and extent of these risks but have not pulled Celebrex off the market.
Other suits similar to this Celebrex lawsuit have been filed against Pfizer in Canada and other parts of the world. Legal experts are expecting a number of Celebrex lawsuit claims to be filed against the makers of Celebrex because of all the serious side effects associated with this prescription medication.

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