AstraZeneca's Crestor May Harm Kidneys, Group Says
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Twenty-nine patients who took  AstraZeneca Plc's  anti-cholesterol drug Crestor have developed  kidney damage, a U.S. consumer group said on Friday as it  called again for a ban on the medicine.
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Fifteen percent of patients who took  Sutent, a pill used to treat kidney and stomach cancers,  developed heart failure, U.S. researchers reported on  Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON Oct 29, 2004 - Consumer advocate Dr. Sidney Wolfe renewed his effort Friday to get the anti-cholesterol drug Crestor removed from sale.
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Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Eric Topol was one of the first to point out the potential heart risk of Merck&#39;s (nyse: MRK - news - people ) withdrawn Vioxx and Pfizer&#39;s (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Celebrex.
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A newspaper advertisement for  AstraZeneca Plc's cholesterol drug Crestor that touts patient  safety is misleading and should no longer be published,  regulators warned in a letter released on Wednesday.
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AstraZeneca will defend its new prescription drug Exanta before a federal panel today after new questions were raised about the safety and effectiveness of the stroke prevention medication.
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The move follows recent studies suggesting that the medications might cause heart attacks.
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The Food and Drug Administration has asked the maker of cholesterol-lowering medication Crestor to stop running an advertisement that makes &quot;false or misleading&quot; claims about the drug&#39;s safety.
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WASHINGTON/LONDON  - An FDA review AstraZeneca  Plc's  under the name Coumadin.
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Specialists told Congress that the way Medicare pays for the drug, used to treat dialysis patients, encourages overuse and raises the risk of heart complications.
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AstraZeneca Plc's cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor performed better than Pfizer Inc's Lipitor in an AstraZeneca-funded study of patients with metabolic syndrome, according to results released on Monday.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned consumers not to buy or use Actra-Rx or Yilishen because the supplements contain an ingredient that could lower blood pressure to unsafe levels.
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Drug-coated stents may carry a delayed risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, according to a new report.
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The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that accumulating evidence suggests a Bayer AG drug used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart bypass surgery increases the risk of death when compared with other drugs.
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A drug to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients may cause birth defects, health officials warned Monday.
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Will AstraZeneca become the latest casualty in the drug safety debate?
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A leading drug used by millions of  people to lower blood pressure does not prevent deaths from  heart attacks or other cardiovascular problems as well as other  treatments, researchers said on Friday.