Pfizer Starts Cutting Deals on Celebrex & Bextra Lawsuits

Pfizer has reached tentative settlements with lawyers representing hundreds of people who say the painkillers Celebrex and Bextra caused heart attacks and strokes, the WSJ is reporting this afternoon. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP) Celebrex and Bextra are in the same class of drugs as Merck’s Vioxx, but Pfizer is taking a different legal path than Merck to [...]