with slide / The new COX-2 inhibitors, celecoxib and rofecoxib, could increase the risk of cardiovascular thrombotic events when used continuously for conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis or ...

COX-2 inhibitors like Celecoxib have come under scrutiny lately due to adverse cardiovascular side-effects stemming from COX-2 reduction. In both fruit fly and rat models, researchers reveal ...

Celebrex, also known as Celecoxib, is one of several drugs known as cox-2 inhibitors, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs.

Celecoxib, a selective COX-2 inhibitor with promising anti-cancer properties, has now been found to attack prostate cancer cells in a second way that differs from Vioxx (rofecoxib), another anti ...

In the wake of the withdrawal of rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck & Co), Pfizer has announced that there is "no evidence of a cardiovascular safety signal" for its selective COX-2 inhibitor, celecoxib ...

Well, COX-2 inhibitors are NSAIDs, but they're newer NSAIDs that were developed to avoid some of the stomach problems that the older NSAIDs caused.<p>So, NSAIDs increase the risk of stomach ulcers ...

Celecoxib is a well-known COX-2 inhibitor that is currently in clinical use. ON09310 belongs to a novel class of 5-(3-indoyl)-1-(sulfamylphenyl)-3-trifluro-methyl pyrazolines, which function as ...

Pfizer Inc's Celebrex arthritis drug was shown to be at least as safe as the widely used prescription-strength versions of painkillers ibuprofen and naproxen, and does not appear to cause heart ...

Investigators from the Adenoma Prevention with Celecoxib Study (APC) enrolled 2,035 patients to a randomized, double-blind trial of the COX-2 inhibitor, celecoxib (Celebrex®), to prevent ...

Celecoxib may emerge as a potent chemopreventive agent for lung cancer, according to a recent study. Researchers tested celecoxib, a COX-2 inhibitor, among patients who were former smokers and ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Ten years in the making, with more than two out of three patients dropping out of the study, the PRECISION trial has found that the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib is as safe—from a ...

Sir—Celecoxib is a widely used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent that acts through selective inhibition of COX-2. Here we demonstrate that celecoxib also significantly increases nuclear ...