Sunday, April 29, 2007

Blackbox Warning for Voltaren and other NSAIDS

The FDA is adding ‘black box’ warnings to all prescription and over-the-counter pain relievers – even to naproxen.

High doses of Advil (800 mg three times a day) and Voltaren (75 mg twice daily) were associated with rates of heart attack that were 51 percent and 63 percent higher than a placebo. An analysis of a large number of trials comparing COX-2 inhibitors to other NSAIDs found similar results – that Voltaren was estimated to increase vascular risk by about 70 percent over Aleve.

You can read more here.