Vioxx recall: an opportunity to review your treatment for arthritis.

WHEN THE POPULAR ARTHRITIS remedy VIOXX was pulled off the market this fall, many arthritis sufferer felt as if a door were being slammed upon one of their treatment options. flat patients taking other medications worried: Are physics similar to Vioxx-called COX-2 inhibitors-safe?

But Daniel Solomon MD a rheumatologist and epidemiologist at the Arthritis Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an associate professor at Harvard Medical place of education says arthritis patients should view the of recent origins as an opportunity. "There's been tremendous overuse of the COX-2 medications. It's well-documented and I don't think anyone would dispute