[OT] Vioxx taken off the market

For any of you old fogeys (or, like me,
rapidly-approaching-middle-age-with-some-bumps-and-bruises-along-the-way-
fogeys), heads up. It appears that Merck has taken Vioxx off the market
amid concerns about cardiovascular complications - increased risk of
stroke and heart attack in an 18-month study of cancer patients. I have
to believe the risk extends beyond the limited field of chemo patients
because Vioxx accounts for about 10% of Merck's sales - something like
$2.5B per year - and they're doing this world-wide and NOT because the
FDA or another country's regulatory agency is making them do it. I
suspect that this cancer study made them go look at all the informal and
anecdotal info they had and haven't released. They probably realized
that if/when the FDA started the process to withdraw approval all that
would become public, exposing them to risk of big fines and sanctions.
So they did it first, to take the sting out a bit.

Anyway, I've been taking this stuff for over two years and it's worked
great for my L5-S1 disc injury. Time to call your docs and get a
substitute 'scrip.

Here's the CNN story:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/30/news/fortune500/merck/index.htm

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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:52:10 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote:

It appears that Merck has taken Vioxx off the market
amid concerns about cardiovascular complications - increased risk of
stroke and heart attack in an 18-month study of cancer patients.

....Well, that's what you get for taking those viagra substitutes,
Herb. Best stick to the real thing :-)

OM

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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:52:10 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote:

It appears that Merck has taken Vioxx off the market
amid concerns about cardiovascular complications - increased risk of
stroke and heart attack in an 18-month study of cancer patients.

...Well, that's what you get for taking those viagra substitutes,
Herb. Best stick to the real thing :-)


Hey, I'm not *that* old! I have a bad *disc*, not a bad *dick* . . . ;-)

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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
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"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
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Hey, I'm not *that* old! I have a bad *disc*, not a bad *dick* . . . ;-)

Complete change of subject...

There was a computer company here in Melbourne who ran an ad for a Pentium
with a 40Gb Hard Dick. No kidding.


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We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
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Hey, I'm not *that* old! I have a bad *disc*, not a bad *dick* . . .
;-)

Complete change of subject...

There was a computer company here in Melbourne who ran an ad for a Pentium
with a 40Gb Hard Dick. No kidding.

Yeah, around here there was an ad for a house with an expansive dick.

Gotta love typos.




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Alan Erskine
We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
...

Hey, I'm not *that* old! I have a bad *disc*, not a bad *dick* . . . ;-)

Complete change of subject...

There was a computer company here in Melbourne who ran an ad for a Pentium
with a 40Gb Hard Dick. No kidding.

Big Kev and Dick Smith are getting together to go into the airline business.

"Big Dick Airlines: Every flight's a redeye."

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ...
Complete change of subject...

From: "Alan Erskine"
"Alan Erskine"
Newsgroups: sci.space.history
Subject: [OT] Vioxx taken off the market

THEY KILLED MY BOYFRIEND I GUEST I WILL GO BACK GIVING MY DOG A BLOW JOB.


THE BIG SHERIFF wrote
The pot was high grade ... in jeff bond's GAY pot farm of 300 plants,
The "stakeout" is not on the mean streets, but in the El dorado forest
in calif. where ... Ten cops are concealed and watching as a subject
appears obviously tobe Jeff Bond 5' 8" , 160lbs,
black hair, black mst, eys. br. , race w . jeff bond AKA frank
C3medic worked for el dorado, calif. fire but got fired because he
was selling drugs to kids. we say freezz jeff pulls out a gun and
shoots at the cops the cops shoot back and kill jeff bond.

steve

good one less washed up fire boy Jeff Bond AKA Frank
C3medic that got fired from el dorado,ca fire dept. and truned into
a drug dealer but it looks like he won't be doing anything any more
this is very good news for all the kids in the usa but drug dealers
are like weed you get rid of one and one more pops up.



--
Alan Erskine
We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge

"steve" wrote in message
om...
"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
...
Complete change of subject...

From: "Alan Erskine"
"Alan Erskine"
Newsgroups: sci.space.history
Subject: [OT] Vioxx taken off the market

THEY KILLED MY BOYFRIEND I GUEST I WILL GO BACK GIVING MY DOG A BLOW JOB.


THE BIG SHERIFF wrote
The pot was high grade ... in jeff bond's GAY pot farm of 300 plants,
The "stakeout" is not on the mean streets, but in the El dorado forest
in calif. where ... Ten cops are concealed and watching as a subject
appears obviously tobe Jeff Bond 5' 8" , 160lbs,
black hair, black mst, eys. br. , race w . jeff bond AKA frank
C3medic worked for el dorado, calif. fire but got fired because he
was selling drugs to kids. we say freezz jeff pulls out a gun and
shoots at the cops the cops shoot back and kill jeff bond.

steve

good one less washed up fire boy Jeff Bond AKA Frank
C3medic that got fired from el dorado,ca fire dept. and truned into
a drug dealer but it looks like he won't be doing anything any more
this is very good news for all the kids in the usa but drug dealers
are like weed you get rid of one and one more pops up.



--
Alan Erskine
We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:52:10 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote:

Anyway, I've been taking this stuff for over two years and it's worked
great for my L5-S1 disc injury. Time to call your docs and get a
substitute 'scrip.

Bextra. My young internist changed me over to Bextra about a month
ago, when the first reports about the Vioxx study came out. I asked
him about cox-2 inhibiters in general and he said that he thought the
concerns were a bit overblown, both regarding Vioxx and cox-2
inhibiters. He was changing patients over to Bextra because it worked
better (and it does).

Mary

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In article ,
Mary Shafer wrote:

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:52:10 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote:

Anyway, I've been taking this stuff for over two years and it's worked
great for my L5-S1 disc injury. Time to call your docs and get a
substitute 'scrip.

Bextra. . . . (snip)

Yep, that's what I ended up getting. I've been taking some samples from
my doc for a few days while waiting for the mail-order prescription to
arrive and it works great.

--
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
http://www.angryherb.net