[e-drug] APPROVe (VIOXX) trial publication?

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E-DRUG: APPROVe (VIOXX) trial publication?
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Dear E-Druggers,

Does anyone know if this APPROVe trial is published any where? (An internetsearch in medline, Blackwell publishers didn't give any results).
We don't have VIOXX here in Sri Lanka but there are about 12 registered brands of rofecoxib in the market. I would be thankful if anyone having access to that article can mail it to me as an attachment. (We don't have access to many medical journals!)

Dr.Ruwan Chandana(ruwanprsd@yahoo.com)
Junior Lecturer
Dept. of Pharmacology
University of Ruhuna- Sri Lanka.
T.P. 094 912234801 Ext.345
Mobile 094 777257803
Fax. 094 912222314

[As MSD withdrew vioxx after an independent panel supervising the trial recommended stopping the trial, there might be no formal publication (yet). By the way, also Ranbaxy withdrew rofecoxib from the market. Sri Lanka better be safe than sorry, and suspend the generic rofecoxib as well! WB]

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E-DRUG: APPROVe (VIOXX) trial publication? (2)
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One correction. Ranbaxy has not voluntarily withdrawn
rofecoxib; it has been banned by the Drugs Controller
General, India (DCGI) after media outcry. There were
more than 40 brands in the market; all stand banned.

Dr. Chandra M. Gulhati,
Editor, Monthly Index of Medical Specialities
(MIMS INDIA), New Delhi 110019. India
e-mail: indianmims@yahoo.co.in

[Thanks for correction! One more reason for Sri Lanka to follow suit! WB]