Nexium, Seroquel (for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder), and Crestor (for high cholesterol) have all been successful.
The nurse, who worked for a gastroenterologist, allowed that her husband had a Nexium.
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AstraZeneca's public relations chief, Chris Majors, will say only that Nexium is substantially more effective than Losec.
Nexium has already been approved for sale in Sweden and will go on the market there in July.
Its top seller, heartburn treatment Nexium, is often criticized for being little different from the off-patent pill it replaced.
We took a skeptical look at an executive training firm called NXIVM (pronounced nexium), run by a charismatic leader named Keith Raniere.
Worldwide sales of Prilosec slipped 7%, as AstraZeneca reduced inventories in advance of releasing an improved version called Nexium.
More important, why didn't I bring Nexium with me in the first place?
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To deal with the problem, last December the company announced a new patented remedy, Nexium, as a successor to Losec.
Worldwide sales of the drug slipped 7%, as AstraZeneca reduced inventories in advance of releasing an improved version called Nexium.
Is Nexium a significant enough improvement on Losec to give it a chance to reach sales levels near those of its predecessor?
Every day of delay is another one in which AstraZeneca can switch patients to its new "purple pill, " a follow-up called Nexium.
Nexium is virtually the same drug as Prilosec at a molecular level.
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"I have a Nexium, " a male voice said from two rows back.
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As we go to press, the company has plans to release technical papers detailing Nexium's efficacy to the medical profession at the end of May.
AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) is trying it with Nexium, the follow-up to ulcer drug Prilosec, once the best-selling drug in the world.
Also, certain medicines, such as proton pump inhibitors Prilosec (omeprazole) and Nexium (esomeprazole), reduce the effect of clopidogrel, leaving a person at greater risk for heart attack and stroke.
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AstraZeneca says that it has not found any evidence of pneumonia risk in studies it has conducted in more than 100, 000 patients who were taking its drugs, Prilosec and Nexium.
It has worked well for AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ), which has switched patients from its old ulcer drug, Prilosec, to a new one, Nexium.
If your heartburn doesn't go away, or if you have other symptoms such as difficulty swallowing, see a doctor, who will probably prescribe one of the so-called proton pump inhibitors (Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid).
"We see Nexium as a significantly better product than Losec or Prilosec but not sufficiently different to be classified as a new remedy, " says Jo Walton, a pharmaceuticals analyst at Lehman Brothers in London.
The latest target is online pharmaceuticals and their affiliates providing medications such as generic or unlicensed Viagra, Nexium, or Lipitor, all of which are illegal for Americans to have mailed into the United States.
AstraZeneca lost the ulcer medicine Prilosec, the world's top drug before Lipitor earned the title, by replacing it with a similar medicine, Nexium, and launching a bunch of other drugs that, while not breakthroughs, had clear advantages over rivals.
Clarinex, from Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ), and Nexium, from AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ), have both been derided as nearly identical to blockbusters that are now off patent.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada have released stunning news: New data seem to show that Nexium and Prilosec, the two most-used treatments for heartburn, were more likely than surgery to cause heart attacks and cardiac deaths in studies lasting many years.
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