FDA Approves New Use for Crestor

2010-02-22T10:25:10Z

<div id="subtitle">New indication for people 50 and older</div><div><p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the cholesterol-lowering medication Crestor (rosuvastatin) for some patients who are at increased risk of heart disease even though they have not been diagnosed with it.</p>...

AstraZeneca gets OK for expanded Crestor use

2010-02-22T10:42:47Z

<div><p>Federal regulators have granted AstraZeneca approval to market its cholesterol pill Crestor as a preventive measure against heart attack and stroke in patients with healthy cholesterol levels.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration deci...

Proper drug-taking would greatly cut heart risks

2010-02-22T21:57:55Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Encouraging more patients to continue taking their prescribed cholesterol drugs would stave off twice as many stroke and heart attack deaths as giving the drugs to a wider range of people, scientists said on Tuesday.</p><p>A study by British researchers suggested that rather than widening the pool of patients, as recommended by U.S. government healt...

Business Highlights

2010-02-23T15:35:40Z

<div><p>Hints of inflation, but experts aren't worried</p><p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy flashed a warning sign of inflation Tuesday, but the recovery is so fragile that experts say a doomsday scenario of runaway prices and higher interest rates is a long way off, if it happens at all.</p><p>While the Federal Reserve is all but certain to t...

FDA panel backs new use for AstraZeneca's Crestor

2010-02-23T15:38:36Z

<div><p>Federal health advisers said Tuesday that expanded use of AstraZeneca's cholesterol pill Crestor can benefit patients with healthy cholesterol levels by preventing heart attack, stroke and death.</p><p>A Food and Drug Administration pan...

U.S. panel backs wider use of AstraZeneca's Crestor

2010-02-23T15:36:51Z

<div><p>GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - AstraZeneca won a U.S. panel's support on Tuesday for its bid to promote the cholesterol-lowering pill Reuters) - U.S. regulators see benefits to using an AstraZeneca Plc cholesterol drug in a vast new group of patients but will ask outside advisers to probe various safety issues, documents released on Friday said.</p><p>AstraZeneca wants permission to promote the drug,

FDA confirms benefits of Crestor in more patients

2010-02-23T17:37:58Z

<div id="subtitle">FDA says cholesterol pill Crestor curbs heart problems in patients, but notes diabetes risk</div><div><p>Federal scientists say AstraZeneca's cholesterol pill Crestor lowers the risk of heart attack, death and stroke in patients without a history of heart disease, though some safety concerns remain.</p&am...

Crestor shows equal or better benefit to women

2010-02-24T04:10:13Z

<div><p>ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A fresh look at data from a landmark study showed that AstraZeneca's powerful cholesterol fighter Crestor dramatically cut deaths, heart attacks and strokes in women at least as much as in men, providing new evi...

Low cholesterol may prevent some prostate cancers

2010-02-24T10:29:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Keeping cholesterol low may help men avoid aggressive prostate cancers, study suggests</div><div><p>Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests.</p><p>One study found that men whose cholesterol was in a healthy range — below 200 — had less than half the risk of developing high-gr...

Study finds even more may benefit from statin use

2010-02-25T04:03:42Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Apparently healthy people with normal or even low cholesterol levels might benefit as much from taking statin drugs as people with high cholesterol, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>They studied people with normal cholesterol readings but ...

U.S. group questions AstraZeneca's Crestor patent

2010-02-26T14:50:32Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. patent research group says it has uncovered evidence that could be used to declare AstraZeneca Plc's &lt;AZN.L&gt;&lt;AZN.N&gt; patent for its cholesterol fighter Crestor...

Abbott, AstraZeneca seek cholesterol pill approval

2010-02-27T01:48:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Abbott and AstraZeneca seek US approval for cholesterol drug combining Crestor and Trilipix</div><div><p>Abbott Laboratories an...

Cholesterol drug cuts vein clot risk by 40 percent

2010-03-03T13:05:29Z

<div><p>The cholesterol-fighting drug rosuvastatin, marketed as Crestor to help fight high cholesterol, can help cut the risk of blood clots dramatically, according to research released Sunday.</p><p>The study dubbed Jupiter -- Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin -- found that taking the British lab Crestor, Lipi...

Specialists to review global fight on heart disease

2010-03-03T17:07:13Z

<div><p>Heart specialists from around the world meet this weekend in Orlando, Florida to discuss landmarks developments in battling cardio disease.</p><p>The 58th annual convention of the American College of Cardiology is set to learn the results of some 30 clinical trials and join for...

Statins (Rosuvastatin) And Their Use Among People With Normal "Bad" Cholesterol (LDL) Levels

2009-03-13T14:55:57Z

<p>Statins (Rosuvastatin) And Their Use Among People With Normal "Bad" Cholesterol (LDL) Levels</p><p>By Salvatore Docimo</p><p></p><p>Statins, also known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, are a class of drugs that reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol in your blood known as low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c). Statin therapy has been approved for patients who have been diagnosed with vascular disease, diabetes, or who have an increased level o...

Crestor Reduces the Risk of Cardiovascular Events For Much Fewer Than One Hundred Twenty of Us

2010-03-05T09:24:22Z

<p>Crestor Reduces The Risk Of Cardiovascular Events For Much Fewer Than One Hundred Twenty Of Us</p><p>By [Http://Ezinearticles.Com/?Expert=Bentley_Thompson]Bentley Thompson</p><p></p><p>Those Cholesterol Numbers Can Be Tricky, And So Are The Reports And Advertisements You Hear. The Makers Of Statin Medications Want All Of Us To Take Statins, Whether...

THE CRESTOR CONUNDRUM

2010-03-01T15:53:08Z

<div><h1> THE CRESTOR CONUNDRUM </h1><p>A groundbreaking 18,000-patient study called Jupiter dominated the AHA meeting. It found that AstraZeneca's Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering statin, reduced the number of heart attacks, strokes, and other events by 44%--results that will likely increase demand for statins. But some scienti...

STATINS GET A LIFT

2010-03-01T15:56:15Z

<div><h1> STATINS GET A LIFT </h1><p>Pharma's big studies cost megabucks, but sometimes they really, really pay off. On Nov. 9, AstraZeneca revealed the results of a huge study of Crestor, its cholesterol-busting statin. The 18,000-patient Jupiter study found that Crestor can cut heart attacks and strokes by 45% in people with ...

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