Marketed drugs such as Singulair only target some types of leukotrienes and may not hit the ones involved in heart disease.
Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare events like liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.
Aside from the obvious relief they could bring to tens of thousands of patients suffering from life-threatening heart conditions, long-lasting ones also reduce the need for heart transplants.
These are the ones that will steal your heart and hold their value.
The kind of leaders that the voter needs - ones that have our interests at heart, not vested interests.
It is a true adventurous journey and not for the faint of heart, the impatient ones, the uneducated, or those with limited resources of time, energy, creativity, money and willingness to sacrifice.
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After undergoing another surgery to replace Medtronic leads--wires connecting the pacemaker to the heart--with ones from Guidant, Davis sued both the hospital system and Haugland, charging medical malpractice and complaining that the second surgery could have been prevented.
On Jan. 15, Pharmacia announced an alliance with Reykjavik, Iceland-based DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) to find genes that predispose people to progress from early forms of heart disease to later ones.
Wyeth is trying to counter the lawyers by settling the most damaging cases--the ones with sympathetic, high-earning plaintiffs or strong evidence of heart damage on an echocardiogram--and pushing the weak ones in front of juries.
He is, however, worried that people with high cholesterol would take relatively low doses when they should be taking higher ones to really reduce their risk of heart attacks.
Some of the ones most people are aware are linked are heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and stroke.
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Yesterday, a Pfizer-funded study showed that high doses of Lipitor prevented heart attacks and strokes better than low ones.
Hence the birth of companies such as Centocor, which makes drugs for heart disease and may soon have new ones for colo-rectal and prostate cancers.
You will find yourself in the midst of a sensory assault as you soak up the aroma of roast chicken and bratwurst, pick out a colourful gingerbread heart to take home to your loved ones and avert your gaze from the pimply-faced teen who has had one beer too many.
Now that Chinese companies have learned the ropes from foreign ones, Beijing seems to have had a change of heart.
Democratic wonks, as well as Republican ones, know the alternatives for shoring up Social Security by heart.
But the very clinical studies Glaxo is using as its defense are the ones that Nissen says inspired him to look into Avandia's heart side effects in the first place.
My heart goes out to those across the region who lost loved ones, homes, and businesses.
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In the U.S., about 785, 000 people will have new heart attacks this year and 470, 000 will suffer recurrent ones.
The Philippine government's Heart Center in Manila attracts as many affluent patients as poor ones because of its high standards of medical expertise.
The company claims that in the future it will be possible to have something like a detective game in which the camera can read players' faces and measure their heart rates in order to have a stab at deciding which ones are lying.
The scientists mixed it with the VEGF and injected the combination into the hearts of two groups of test animals, rats and pigs, in which they had induced heart attacks. (Pig hearts bear significant similarities to human ones.) In both cases, instead of being washed away, the VEGF stayed on the lattice and slowly got released over several weeks.
But take heart sorrowful shoppers, not all purchases we make when despondent are bad ones.
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The last experimental drug to generate sales forecasts as big as the ones analysts are ballparking for bapineuzumab was torcetrapib, a Pfizer pill designed to reduce heart attacks.
"The older ones at the time of death had a lot more calcification than the younger ones, " said Randall Thompson, a cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Mo.
In fact, part of the reason for the fervent interest in these topics is that the free, unfettered internet and free educational resources (particularly those related to science and technology like the ones MITx is offering) and the small companies that emerge from them are closer to the heart of job creation than large corporations.
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