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Biotech / Medical : Monsanto Co. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Joe Wesley who wrote (502)11/11/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Dan Spillane  Respond to of 2539
 
My question is why go with the Merck drug when it has a side effect where the Monsanto one doesn't? I thought the whole idea behind the COX-2 drugs was no side effects.

(from the story)
Celebrex is a twice-a-day drug and Vioxx is a once-a-day, but analysts downplayed that. At high doses, Vioxx has been rumored to have a problem with water retention, but, according to one of its posters, the drug had a similar number of cases of "mild fluid retention" to ibuprofen