Instead, Taylor argues that adding Niaspan, a delayed release niacin made by Kos, cut heart attacks further.
This week, America's Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to a new type of artificial heart made by Abiomed, a firm based near Boston.
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When VIGOR was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, there were already questions among scientists about the potential of Vioxx and related drugs made by Pfizer to cause heart attacks.
For example, fresh nerve cells could alleviate spinal-cord injuries, or newly made heart cells could repair a site scarred by a heart attack.
That's a question the Food and Drug Administration will consider later this year when it evaluates a heart plug made by St.
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But that figure could go higher as a result of the lawsuit brought by hundreds of thousands of people seeking damages for heart problems associated with taking either of two diet drugs made by American Home Products ahp (nyse: ahp - news - people) in combination with another diet drug.
Tricor did decrease heart attacks by a statistically significant 24%, and it made it less likely that patients would have to undergo heart surgery or angioplasty, a procedure in which balloons are used to unclog arteries.
This morning, scientists at the National Genome Health Research Institute announced plans to sequence the genes of 1, 000 patients with heart disease using the machines being made by Illumina.
Bextra, another Cox-2 inhibitor made by Pfizer, increased the risk of side effects, including heart attack in trials of patients undergoing heart surgery.
They came back from a 22-point deficit and made it a heart-stopper, thwarted in the end only by a missed pass on 4th and goal (Great name for a football book, by the way.) Was there defensive pass interference on the play?
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It took the better part of a decade for dangerous heart side effects to show up in Seldane, an antihistamine made by the company that became Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
Originally made famous by Bridget Bardot in the 1950s, this French Riviera town still holds the heart of jet-setters, models and celebrities alike.
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In one of those incidents, heart surgeon Charles Sciolaro says he had a patient who requested a pacemaker made by St.
When VIGOR was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, there were already questions among scientists about the potential of Vioxx and related drugs made by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) to cause heart attacks.
Very worrisome but less conclusive evidence has also linked Celebrex and Bextra, both made by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), to some heart risk.
Researchers at Cornell University tested the drug lovastatin, made by Merck Co. as Mevecor, on 6, 505 men and women who showed no signs of heart disease and had "average" cholesterol levels.
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