These work in dialysis and help cancer patients, but today Amgen is facing an Food and Drug Administration advisory panel because a large clinical trial showed that instead of improving the prognosis of pre-dialysis kidney patients, Aranesp increased stroke.

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However, statin pre-treatment had no influence on the risk of dying, stroke, heart attack or kidney failure around the time of the operation.

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