AstraZeneca's Crestor May Harm Kidneys, Group Says
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Twenty-nine patients who took  AstraZeneca Plc's  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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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration late Friday declined to endorse AstraZeneca&#39;s anti-stroke drug, Exanta.
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Shares in pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca PLC and GlaxoSmithKline PLC tumbled Friday after a US safety official raised concerns over key drugs sold by the companies.
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AstraZeneca Plc. said on Wednesday a new  study in Japan showed a higher rate of a potentially fatal side  effect in patients taking its lung cancer pill Iressa than that  demonstrated in an earlier analysis.
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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 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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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) learned yesterday from AstraZeneca that a large clinical trial comparing Iressa (gefitinib) with placebo in patients with non-small cell lung cancer who had failed other courses of cancer therapy showed no survival
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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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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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Two studies offer more evidence about  the dangers of some painkillers, adding kidney problems to  heart concerns already raised with the drug once sold as Vioxx,  researchers said on Tuesday.
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AstraZeneca Plc's cholesterol-lowering  drug Crestor has been linked to the death of a patient who  developed a suspected case of severe muscle wasting, Europe's  third largest drugmaker said on Monday.
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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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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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SINGAPORE : Doctors in the United States have warned that painkillers Bextra and Celebrex may be linked to major cardiovascular problems and should not be prescribed.
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Many dialysis patients get too much of the drug Epogen, a problem that not only may harm some patients but leads to the wasteful spending of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, a House committee was told Wednesday.
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Kidney dialysis patients covered by Medicare are receiving escalating doses of an expensive anti-anemia drug, despite growing evidence that aggressive treatment raises the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes.
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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.