IN THE HEADLINES-Bextra: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced information on side effects associated with the use of Bextra. A "boxed" warning, strengthening previous warnings about the risk of life-threatening skin reactions and a new bolded warning regarding the use of  Bextra by patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery will be added to the label.

IN THE HEADLINES -Antidepressants: A The warning was proposed in September by an expert panel of the Food and Drug Administration regarding antidepressants. It voted to recommend to the full FDA that all antidepressants carry a warning, highlighted in a black-lined box on their labels, about a chance of suicide in children.Prozac, Cymbalta, and other drugs were implicated. For more information, please call us.

VIOXX NEWS: New studies show that taking as little as 25 milligrams of Vioxx per day can increase a person's chance of heart disease by 50 per cent, according to a recent news report.