What Should Health Care Providers Do at This Time? There are no simple answers about how to select the most appropriate NSAID therapy for an individual patient (i.e., a traditional NSAID versus a ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a series of important changes pertaining to the marketing of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory class of drugs, including COX-2 selective and ...

Studies suggest that the use of selective cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX2) inhibitors is associated with an increased risk of vascular events; however, the degree of this risk, and the magnitude of the risk ...

Patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease who are compliant with proton pump inhibitor therapy stay on NSAIDs longer than noncompliant patients. Study subjects were GERD patients receiving ...

Two new review studies evaluating the safety of the pain-relieving medications selective cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibitors and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) find increased ...

Dr. Berchman Austin Vaz answers the question: 'NSAIDs For Osteoarthritis Pain?' — -- Question: What is an NSAID and how is it used to treat pain resulting from osteoarthritis? Answer: NSAIDs are ...

Scott et al. conducted a systematic review to evaluate the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) associated with cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX2) inhibitors and traditional NSAIDs. The review found a small ...

March 27, 2006 – Results from two clinical trials, to be published in the April 2006 edition of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, indicate that esomeprazole magnesium can reduce the incidence ...

What’s Wrong With Guidelines for Back Pain Management? A recent Cochrane review has shown that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) were more effective than placebo regarding pain intensity ...

Use of NSAIDs was associated with a greater risk for nephrotic syndrome after at least 2 weeks of exposure, according to a recently published study. “Several studies demonstrated that conventional ...

A significantly increased risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was seen with the use of diclofenac and ibuprofen. The use of non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was ...

More recent cost-effective analyses have examined cardiovascular risk and GI benefit, together, adding the assumption that aspirin mitigates the gastroprotective effects of COX-2-selective NSAIDs. For ...