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| | A black box wouldn't be the end for Celebrex, analysts say. - May. 5, 2005 |
 | | The FDA said April 7 it was considering a fl box label for Pfizer's blockbuster Celebrex, an arthritis painkiller with $3.3 billion in 2004 sales. |
 | | "Doctors, when they see a fl box warning, it really makes them anxious in that they can imagine themselves, if an adverse event occurs, in a courtroom trying to explain to a judge why they prescribed the medicine when it says right on the label why it shouldn't be prescribed," said McDonald. |
 | | Cisapride, a treatment for severe nighttime heartburn, was given an fl box warning by the FDA in 1995, and an expanded fl box warning in 1998, because it was blamed for heart disorders resulting in deaths. |
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