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Bextra: The Kind of Pain That Never Leaves You
April 1, 2008. By Gordon Gibb.
San Francisco, CA Joann Simmons is a name on a court docket now—just two words in a legal document. But those two words represent someone's life partner, who is no longer here. And the life partner left behind, James Simmons, has filed a wrongful death suit against the makers of Bextra.
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Vioxx/Bextra: "They get you fixed but then they stonewall you."
March 27, 2008. By Paul Halpern.
Tulsa, OK Jay Sullivan is a cancer survivor, which is an accomplishment in itself. He's also a survivor of Merck's Vioxx and Pfizer's Bextra, two nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) that were pulled from the market because of a dangerously high risk of heart attack.
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Bextra, Bextra! Read All About It! First trial to be heard in May
March 17, 2008. By Gordon Gibb.
San Francisco, CA Nearly four years after Bextra was taken off the market for cardiovascular risk, the first Bextra trial is scheduled to be heard May 5th. On the heels of the mammoth $4.85 billion Vioxx settlement, the Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Court for the Bextra/Celebrex litigation is finally ramping up in California.
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Bextra: "They Got Away with Murder"
March 15, 2008. By Jane Mundy.
Atlanta, GA "I was told that if my mother had lived--as a vegetable in a hospital bed-- there would be a lawsuit, but because she died, there was no recourse," says Dianne Nev. "Pfizer, the maker of Bextra, can't make you a vegetable and get away with it, but they can get away with murder."
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