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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Drug companies will get approval for a drug for one disease, then later get approval for more diseases by doing additional post-market studies. I think it was with Celebrex that they found the problems during a study to get approval for Celebrex to be indicated for treatment of COLON POLYPS. The dosage was 2x that for arthritis.


66 posted on 12/29/2004 5:28:05 PM PST by virgil
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To: virgil

Arthritis dosage is 100 mgs, sometimes 200 mgs. They were using 400 and 800 mg. dosing. The cardiac effects were a bit more pronounced at the 800 mg dosing, but still a very small number of people.

What they need to learn is why some people have this effect.


67 posted on 12/29/2004 5:56:21 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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