The FDA bans the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) Phenylbutazone (Bute) in all food-producing animals.
Voltaren, manufactured by Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people), is an older, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
Diclofenac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug whose veterinary use on livestock in South Asia has grown rapidly in recent years.
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The U.S. flu vaccine crisis and Merck's recall of its anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx underscore the need for major health care reforms.
The healthy volunteers were testing an anti-inflammatory drug - TGN1412 - at a research unit based at Northwick Park Hospital when they suffered a severe reaction.
The model also suggested that an anti-inflammatory drug called celecoxib should bind with CDH11, a protein which plays an important role in the development of both rheumatoid arthritis and metastatic breast cancer.
If it had admitted the risk early, Vioxx might still be on the market for the small number of patients who really need an anti-inflammatory drug as easy on the stomach as Vioxx was.
The company is starting up a large trial with an anti-inflammatory drug it licensed from Bayer that targets the bad gene, hoping to show that the drug slashes the risk of heart attacks in cardiovascular patients.
One of the four drugs used on this horse was a common form phenylbutazone that you probably recognize as as a Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used for pain management in horses as ubiquitously used only through veterinarian controlled pharmaceutical sale to horse owner or trainer.
Federal regulators are still considering allowing a claim by Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people) that its arthritis and pain-relief drug Vioxx is safer for the stomach than some other anti-inflammatory drugs.
The U.K.'s Food Standards Agency on Thursday said it found traces of drug phenylbutazone, a painkiller and anti-inflammatory known as bute, in eight of some 200 horse carcasses it tested.
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