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Pfizer’s Celebrex: Mass Tort Madness

This is a reminder-that if a drug (or an "all natural" supplement) can have an effect (positive) it can also have a side effect (negative). Since all people are not identical they react to the same drug slightly differently (interpatient variability). Do we take a drug off the market that has helped hundreds of thousands because 2 or 3 people have an adverse event at the far end of the bell curve? It will probably be another 50+ years before we can test each patient to see how he/she will react to a certain drug. In the meantime our choice is to accept the miniscule risk or don't allow any new drugs on the market.