AstraZeneca's Crestor May Harm Kidneys
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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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and triple the danger of a stroke. Urinary tract infections, such as cystitis, have the same effect, a study revealed yesterday.
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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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Shares in AstraZeneca tumbled today after a key drug it has developed in the fight against strokes was provisionally rejected by US regulators.
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Shionogi Co. shares fell as much as 14.4 percent in Tokyo on concerns in the European Union and US about the safety of Crestor, a cholesterol-reducing drug developed by the Japanese company and sold by AstraZeneca Plc.
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LONDON - Drug manufacturer AstraZeneca PLC announced Friday that trials of its new lung cancer drug found it didn&#39;t help patients live longer.
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Shares in AstraZeneca Plc fell as much as 10 percent on Friday after regulators in the United States and Europe raised safety concerns about the Anglo-Swedish drug maker&#39;s anti-cholesterol treatment Crestor.
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The Food and Drug Administration 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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AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough must pay damages for overcharging on certain drugs.
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A study of recommended blood pressure drugs has produced a result even the researchers find hard to explain: Adding a calcium channel blocker to a diuretic was associated
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AstraZeneca&#39;s heartburn drug Nexium can reduce the risk of stomach ulcers among users of anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin or ibuprofen, federal regulators have ruled.
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The diabetes drug Actos cuts the risk of heart attack, stroke and death but raises the risk of heart failure, according to one study published on Tuesday, while a second confirmed disputed findings that rival Avandia raises heart risks.
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NEW YORK  - People with failing kidneys may frequently use "natural" or homeopathic products and over-the-counter medications that could worsen their kidney function, a new study shows. And these products are sometimes recommended by their physician or pharmacist.
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Pharmaceutical firm Wyeth said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track status to its experimental cancer drug temsirolimus as an initial treatment for patients with advanced kidney ...
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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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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 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.