Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Paul Flynn (Labour), on Tuesday, 22 March 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 21 members in total.

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ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS

That this House is alarmed at the statement by Dr David Graham, associate safety director of the US Food and Drug Administration, that the COX-2 inhibitor drug Vioxx is the `single greatest drug safety catastrophe in the history of the world', resulting in up to 140,000 strokes and heart attacks in the US; notes that there were 4,500,000 prescriptions for COX-2 inhibitors in the UK in 2003 but regrets that the UK's defective yellow card system failed to detect significant adverse reactions; and calls for an immediate halt to the prescription of COX-2 inhibitors and a thorough safety appraisal.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

974 

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Drugs Side effects Rofecoxib

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk