ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS

Early day motion 437, tabled 28 June 2005 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 18 members.

That this House is alarmed at the statement by Dr David Graham, associate safety director of the US Food and Drug Administration, that the COX-2 inhibitor drug Vioxx is the `single greatest drug safety catastrophe in the history of the world', resulting in up to 140,000 strokes and heart attacks in the US; notes that there were 4,500,000 prescriptions for COX-2 inhibitors in the UK in 2003; regrets that the UK's defective yellow card system failed to detect significant adverse reactions; and calls for an immediate safety reappraisal of all COX-2 inhibitors.

Signatures by party: Labour 12, Liberal Democrat 4, Conservative 1, DUP 1.