Established drugs includes the antibiotic Clarithromycin and the prescription painkiller Brufen, a version of ibuprofen.
Merck today withdrew its application with the Food and Drug Administration for Arcoxia, its next-generation painkiller.
's Vioxx, withdrawn from the market in September because the painkiller boosted heart attack risk.
The company's other drugs, cancer painkiller Actiq and antiseizure medicine Gabitril, also saw solid growth.
And the FDA is still scarred by the scandal of Merck 's painkiller Vioxx.
Tighter controls should be put on the painkiller tramadol according to the UK's official drugs advisers.
In 2004, she was charged with obtaining the painkiller OxyContin fraudulently at a pharmacy.
He also prescribed Provigil, a stimulant, and Vicodin, a painkiller with high amounts of acetaminophen.
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The 36-year-old from New Jersey began taking the painkiller Percocet to get high at weekends.
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Merck faces more than 9, 000 lawsuits related to the withdrawn painkiller, and the number is constantly rising.
Remember, this occurred just two years after the scandal over the safety of the withdrawn Vioxx painkiller.
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Celebrex is the first of a new kind of painkiller called COX-2 inhibitors to get FDA approval.
Hughes needed an injection of painkiller in September 2011 to alleviate a seven-year-old back injury that recurred.
Dr Lingueglia said it was "really surprising" that black mamba venom would contain such a powerful painkiller.
But the drug giant is still threatened by 20, 000 or so lawsuits related to its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) had already launched a similar painkiller, Celebrex.
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The number of painkiller addicts has nearly doubled from 2000, when 3.8 million Americans were hooked, the DEA says.
"It's an easy way to get your hands on an opiate-based drug, a painkiller, for recreational use, " Stillwell says.
Famous examples of class-action suits include those against the maker of painkiller Vioxx, retailer Wal-Mart and energy giant Enron.
Zogenix's painkiller Zohydro is a single-entity product containing hydrocodone -- a narcotic painkiller.
And if none of these approaches work, there is a fourth take a painkiller.
Breast cancer is just one of many types of cancer that are being studied in relation to the lowly painkiller.
Men who take certain types of painkiller may be lowering their risk of developing prostate cancer, says a scientific study.
Novartis is looking to enter the arthritis drug market with its own version of a widely successful class of painkiller.
The painkiller he is referring to is diclofenac, which is sold under a variety of brand names such as Voltaren.
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To make it available by prescription only would deprive consumers of a painkiller that is no more dangerous than others.
Merck is facing thousands of lawsuits related to the withdrawal of its painkiller Vioxx, pulled from the market last year.
That's even before taking into account Merck's legal liability for the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, once its second-best seller after Zocor.
Of course, there's no reason not to do both--so long as someone decides to pay for a big painkiller trial.
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