Well, it *was* linked to over 50,000 deaths and resulted in one of the largest, if not *the* largest, Pharmaceutical Industry payouts in Class Action history...all without admitting fault of course.
Yes, but to broadly ban all of them... when other Cox-2 / NSAID are effective and safer, was a typical knee jerk FDA reaction.
Celebrex is not Vioxx. Celebrex is fine. See results of 10 year study across 24k patients, to prove Celebrex is not Vioxx - infact has lower CV risk than Ibuprofen. Results came out in 2016.
“I thought that it would probably tilt against Celebrex. That’s what most people in the world thought,” he said, referring to colleagues in cardiovascular medicine.
“Everybody was wrong, including me. In fact, the actual rate of heart disease events with Celebrex was a little bit lower than it was for these older drugs like ibuprofen and naproxen,” he said. The strength of the evidence was overwhelming.”
For the study involving 24,081 heart patients and people at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, the researchers compared celecoxib with the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, naproxen (Aleve) and ibuprofen (Motrin or Advil) and found celecoxib no more dangerous to the heart than the two NSAIDs, which have been prescribed for decades. Celebrex was even safer when it came to certain side effects, like serious gastrointestinal problems.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/13/health/nsaid-pain-reliever-safety/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/celebrex-arthritis-nsaid-drug-study-surprises-cardiovascular-heart-experts/