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Medical experts weigh safety in using five drugs.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Linda Loyd
PHILADELPHIA _ A day after an FDA official raised safety concerns about five widely prescribed medicines, doctors and patients had the same question: Should they still use the drugs?
David Graham, the Food and Drug Administration's associate director of drug safety, testified before a Senate committee Thursday that not only had his agency not given enough weight to safety concerns about the recalled painkiller Vioxx, but he also said regulators should be looking closely at five other drugs.
They are: Pfizer Inc.'s Bextra, a pain reliever in the same class as Vioxx; Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering drug manufactured by AstraZeneca PLC; Meridia, a weight-loss drug made by Abbott Laboratories; the acne drug Accutane made by Roche Holding AG; and Serevent, an asthma medicine from GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
Manufacturers of these drugs on Thursday defended their products, most of…
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