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New York Times Health News: 02-20-2005
Last week’s hearings on painkillers may have started a cultural transformation at the F.D.A.
Pain management experts said they expected Celebrex, Vioxx and Bextra to be prescribed much less readily.
The panel of experts, however, advised the F.D.A. to ban advertising for the painkillers Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx.
Officials said that annual deaths increased 57 percent from 1997 to 2003, with AIDS-related diseases fueling much of the rise.
The federal government has delivered a warning to the health care industry: move into the computer age or the government will probably impose a solution.
More than 400 people have tested positive for tuberculosis infection in the central Dutch city of Zeist.
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