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Celebrex Law Suits Looking Like a Strong Case Author: Dave Hoffman

There is no data as yet that indicates how many former patients
of Pfizer's anti-inflammatory and painkilling drug are filing
Celebrex law suits, but given the magnitude of the company's
perceived crime it is likely that there will be very many. And
even a quick perusal of the alleged behaviour of the company
regarding this drug seems to point to Celebrex law suits being
something of a fait accompli.

And yet there is no predicting the future where large
multimillion dollar companies are concerned, though the numbers
of Celebrex law suits expected to be filed will give an enormous
power to the people. And this is a power that they deserve;
having had self-determination harshly taken from them, when they
took a drug that they were promised would only enhance their
life.

Pharmaceuticals wield enormous power, not only because of their
huge monetary value, but because they have the power to toy with
the hopes of the chronically ill. Anyone who has suffered from a
long-term condition like arthritis, the condition that Celebrex
was largely used to treat, or who has watched a loved one try to
cope will understand that the availability of a drug that claims
to help will be enthusiastically greeted. We entrust our health
to pharmaceutical companies when we take their drugs, and they
have a responsibility to protect it. This is a trust that Pfizer
have badly lost.

Pfizer announced in December 2004, after a clinical study
exploring Celebrex's effects on cancer, that their drug
increased more than twofold a person's risk of developing
cardiovascular disease. But it seems that Pfizer were aware of
this link previously, and yet persisted in marketing a product
they knew to be unsafe. Unlike the makers of Vioxx, who
voluntary withdrew their drug from the market once links between
it and increased risk of heart attacks became established,
Pfizer have continued to allow Celebrex to be sold, indirectly
claiming that their product is safe for use by the general
public.

These are the arguments that it seem will end Celebrex law suits
positively for the many people whose lives have been changed
forever by the drug. It seems that Pfizer knowingly placed their
customers at risk, violating the enormous trust between them and
the ill. While these people desperately need the financial
compensation that these law suits could provide in order to
protect their health in the years to come, even if large
pharmaceuticals win out in the courts, this will forever remain
a moral victory for the former patients of Celebrex.