AstraZeneca's Crestor Drug Beats Lipitor in Study
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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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NEW YORK  - For people with coronary artery disease, treatment with high doses of Lipitor (generic name, atorvastatin) may reduce their odds of having to be hospitalized for heart failure, according to a new report. However, this benefit is largely confined to individuals with a history of heart failure.
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they would review a study showing a Merck and Schering-Plough cholesterol drug worked no better than a generic in preventing the build-up of arterial plaque.
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Cholesterol-lowering statins, a  popular class of drugs that includes Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor, may  slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to  results from a small study presented on Tuesday.
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An unusual study enrolling only black Americans showed a more powerful statin drug worked better to lower cholesterol than a rival brand, researchers said on Tuesday.
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New data are due out on a promising cholesterol drug. But there are doubters.
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Early treatment with Lipitor (atorvastatin), a "statin" cholesterol-lowering drug, reduces the build-up of artery-clogging plaque in patients who've had a recent heart attack, new research suggests.
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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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A popular cholesterol-lowering drug failed to help slow the buildup of artery-clogging plaque in a long-awaited study, the companies that market the medication said yesterday, raising questions about whether its use should be limited.
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they  would review a study showing a Merck and Schering-Plough  cholesterol drug worked no better than a generic in preventing  the build-up of arterial plaque.
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A new study of a popular cholesterol-lowering drug finds that more of the drug is not necessarily better. A high dose of the statin called Zocor -- 80 mg -- did not significantly reduce chances of a second heart attack any more than a low dose -- 20 mg.
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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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AstraZeneca Plc's cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor has been linked to the death of a patient, Europe's third largest drugmaker said on Monday.
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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 Wednesday.
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AstraZeneca Plc&#39;s cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor performed better than Pfizer Inc&#39;s Lipitor in an AstraZeneca-funded study of patients with metabolic syndrome, according to results released on Monday.
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A long-acting niacin drug that  raises so-called good cholesterol showed promise in slowing the  clogging of arteries when taken along with cholesterol-lowering  statins compared to statin therapy alone, according to a small  clinical study.
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AstraZeneca, the pharma-ceuticals group, received a significant boost for its Arimidex breast cancer drug following new research published yesterday suggesting it was significantly more effective than the existing generic tamoxifen.