Word: anticholesterol
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CRESTOR Graham cited reports that some patients on Crestor, one of the newest anticholesterol statins, have suffered kidney failure. The drug's manufacturer, AstraZeneca, says the prescription drug is safe as long as it is used properly...
...much as 20%. Its stock promptly lost $28 billion of its market value, temporarily dragging the Dow Jones industrial average down with it. The timing could not have been worse for Merck, whose sales last year grew a paltry 5%, compared with 23% in 2000, and whose big anticholesterol drug Zocor will lose patent protection in 2006, with nothing to replace it. Some analysts wondered whether the company was ripe for a merger--an idea Merck executives have steadfastly rejected. "Without a deal, Merck cannot grow," says Richard Evans, a senior analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "In fact...
HEALTH: Now anticholesterol drugs may protect eyesight too 147 MONEY: Making inflation pay 148 TECH: No-hassle photo shares...
...drug producer by volume, but its fragmented industry of 20,000 companies is still stunted in terms of revenues. Last year, the total value of India's drug sales including exports came to $6.5 billion, less than the $8 billion Pfizer raked in from a single blockbuster product, its anticholesterol drug Lipitor...
...study. The men ranged in age from 45 to 73; the women, 55 to 78 and postmenopausal. Those suffering from obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure were excluded. Beyond that, only a few had LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, levels above 190, until now considered the trigger point for prescribing anticholesterol drugs...