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Europe approves new use for Pfizer's Celebrex drug

Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:19am EST

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LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Friday that 17 European countries had agreed to extend the approved use of its Celebrex drug to include symptomatic relief of ankylosing spondylitis in adults.

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The decision makes Celebrex the first so-called COX-2 inhibitor to be approved for the disease, a form of arthritis that affects the spine.

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