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"In 2006 a review of COX-2 inhibitor safety from studies performed up to that time found a significant risk of cardiac events across the spectrum of cox-2 drugs.14 Overall there was a statistically significant 42% increase in vascular events and an 86% increase in heart attacks. The risks of taking cox-2 drugs were double that of taking naproxen. Diclofenac was also associated with a statistically significant 63% increase in the risk of vascular events. Naproxen had no risk, and ibuprofen had a 51% increase, which was not statistically significant." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The pharmaceutical cox-2 drugs from mega pharmaceutical corporations Pfizer and Merck once were hyped (just like any dietary supplement) for their wondrous ability to knock out the COX-2 enzyme cascade that causes inflammation and leads to many disorders, including arthritis, heart disease, and cancer. The trouble is that for users, it is like playing Russian roulette. Vioxx and other COX-2-inhibiting drugs have been alleged in articles in The New England Journal of Medicine and other mainstream medical journals to increase a user's risk of a heart attack." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "To Tom Newmark and Paul Schulick, the real goal for consumers ought to be to derive the benefits of the cox-2 drugs without their drawbacks," Herb Lewis told me. The real inflammation cure, one found to be both safe and effective, said Lewis and Hall, is in nature. Our reporters at Healthy Living discovered New Chapter in 2003, and we began reporting on the company. The company's calling card was a rain forest formula called Zyflamend, available at health food stores." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"This panel also supported the continued use of other cox-2 drugs, such as Celebrex and Bextra, for arthritis, despite their known cardiovascular risks, so long as they also carry a black-box warning. Given the evidence that arthritis can often be successfully treated with vitamins B-3 and C or other nutrients, these decisions raise many interesting ethical issues. Vitamin B-3 is not a drug. Drugs are developed to treat a single condition. Arthritis is not a single disease. It is caused by many factors, including toxic responses to foods." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"There are painkillers that cause acute hepatitis, blood pressure meds that block up bile ducts, antidepressants that cause hepatocyte damage, cox-2 drugs that run up liver enzymes and cause artery damage, and diabetes medications that inflame the liver so badly that people die. Some have been removed from the market. Others are on the cusp of such an action. And some are sending up increasingly strong signals that they, too, are making the porta malorum very malorum indeed. So, how, specifically, is the liver fairing in Gen-Rx America?" - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "Then, in 2004, Vioxx, Merck's vaunted COX-2 painkiller, along with Pfizer's cox-2 drugs, became the biggest nonwar and nonelection story of the year. Recall the original promise and intent of the so-called coxibs: Unlike other anti-inflammatories, COX-2s were approved by the FDA and justified by their makers based on the notion that they were easier on the gut." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Using any of the cox-2 drugs along with aspirin can increase the likelihood of gastrointestinal ulceration. The blood thinner warfarin can increase risk of uncontrolled bleeding. The effectiveness of diuretic drugs, beta-blockers, and ACE inhibitors can be diminished by these drugs. All NSAIDs, including Cox-2 inhibitors, decrease the clearance of lithium and methotrexate, increasing their duration and strength of activity. Cox-2 drugs could decrease the effectiveness of penicillin and sulfonamide drugs." - Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA, Bottom Line's Prescription Alternatives (Get the book.)

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