FDA Panel Votes Against Changing Painkiller Labels

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted Tuesday that there isn't enough evidence to say the anti-inflammatory painkiller naproxen is safer than other pain drugs when it comes to heart health.

The committee vote was 16-9 that naproxen, sold as Aleve by Bayer AG, can't be convincingly proven to have greater cardiac safety than ibuprofen, Celebrex and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Ibuprofen is sold under...

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