By Ben Hirschler MUNICH (Reuters) - Experts clashed on Tuesday over the safety of Merck & Co MRK and Schering-Plough Corp's SGP cholesterol drug Vytorin as full results from a controversial study were presented at Europe's biggest medical congress. Researchers involved in the...
A close reading of the Merck and Schering-Plough first-quarter conference calls suggests that Merck is distancing itself from its joint-venture partner -- who is, in any event, in a much worse position to weather the storm over their cholesterol-fighting pill Vytorin. Vytorin, of course, is a combination...
Wonder no further whether the recent litany of drug-safety problems would make the Food and Drug Administration more cautious about approving new drugs. In just the past four days, the agency has thrown some serious sand into the industry's drug-development works, delaying or derailing three separate programs of widely varying...
Esperion Therapeutics, a biotech that Pfizer spent $1.3 billion acquiring in 2003, is free once more. And its founder, Roger Newton, is apparently putting the band back together. Newton, in fact, has just pulled off one of the rarer and most complicated moves in biotechnology -- the...
* YOU KNOW SKIPPING MEALS CAN LEAVE YOU RAVENOUS--and may even pack on pounds--but putting off eating could also raise your heart disease risk. Experts at the USDA Agricultural Research Service found that people who ate most of their food between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. had higher cholesterol, blood...
Elucigene FH20 Effectively Identifies Genetic Mutations to Support Rapid Implementation of New Clinical Practice Guidelines in the United Kingdom MANCHESTER, England & STAMFORD, Conn. -- Just ahead of the expected release of clinical practice guidelines on Familial Hypercholesterolaemia FH by the influential National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE,...
Reports of Baroness Thatcher's dementia have shone a light on a condition that is under-recognised and underfunded in the UK. One in three people who live to be 65 will die with dementia. There is still no cure for this devastating condition. Dementia is more than just forgetfulness. Symptoms can...
TAMPA, Fla. -- PanGenex Corporation (Pink Sheets:PGXC) hosted a successful product showcase at the Florida Chiropractic Association National Convention and Expo from August 22nd thru August 24th. PanGenex had the opportunity to directly meet over 500 practitioners from around the state of Florida and the rest of the country. In...
Low or high levels of LDL cholesterol are associated with an increased risk of cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a Chinese study that noted the increasing evidence of an association between type 2 diabetes and cancer risk. The study included 6,107 diabetes patients. None of the...
TSX Exchange Symbol: RVX CALGARY, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Resverlogix Corp. ("Resverlogix" or the "Company") (TSX:RVX) is pleased to announce that the Phase 1b/2a program for the study of RVX-208 in subjects with normal lipids and those with low high-density lipoprotein HDL cholesterol has proceeded according to...
U.S. drug regulators said Thursday that they were investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin might be linked to cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it has informed health-care professionals that the agency was investigating a report from the so-called Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis SEAS trial of...
Forbes Medi-Tech Inc. (TSX: FMI)(NASDAQ: FMTI) ("Forbes" or "Company") announced the introduction of an innovative processed cheese slice containing the Company's proprietary cholesterol-lowering ingredient, ReducolTM. Available through the Pirkka ReducolTM product range - jointly developed by Kesko Food and Scanvit Ltd. - the processed cheese slices will initially be available...
SPRING, Texas, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Go Healthy, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GOHE) announced today that the company has received a letter of recognition from Reverend Andy Shanholtz, a pastor in the Praise Fellowship Church in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The pastor was quoted as saying, "I have been trying since 2003...
LifeCycle Pharma Adjusts Expectations for 2008 HORSHOLM, Denmark -- LifeCycle Pharma A/S (OMX: LCP) announced today that the royalty stream in North America related to its first commercialized product, Fenoglide[TM], the cholesterol lowering drug (formerly known as LCP-FenoChol) for the treatment of hyperlipidemia and hypertriglyceridemia, has been sold...
BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alan James Group AJG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Interleukin Genetics, Inc. , announced today that it has launched several new websites for its line of branded nutritional supplements, including GinsanaR, GinkobaR, VenastatR, Optiform SAM-eR, CransanaR and Ginsana Gold MultiplexR. AJG markets...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- eFoodSafety.com, Inc. (OTCBB:EFSF), a researcher, developer, and marketer of whole foods and nutraceutical products announced today that it has established a marketing plan for the national roll-out of Cinnergen[TM] and Cinnechol[TM]. Cinnergen, made with clinically researched ingredients, is a non-prescription liquid, whole food nutritional supplement that promotes...
Did you hear the one about the shrinking cereal boxes? Unfortunately, it's not a joke. After Kellogg's cut the size but not the price of cereal boxes a couple of months ago, we got to thinking about oatmeal. With a new school year starting up and grocery prices obviously still...
Researchers who last year reported a possible link between cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and cancer now say that further analysis has disproved such an association. Statin medications include such blockbusters as Crestor, Lipitor, Pravachol and Zocor. "The bottom line is that there is no evidence from this work, the largest...
TAMPA, Fla. -- PanGenex Corporation (Pink Sheets: PGXC) will be hosting a product showcase at the Florida Chiropractic Association National Convention and Expo from August 21st thru August 24th. Practitioners and distributors visiting from around the country can visit PanGenex at booth #1204 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention...
An Ongoing Community Commitment PHOENIX -- Lab Express, Arizona's largest independent medical testing provider, is offering your choice of a FREE cholesterol test or a FREE fasting glucose test. If you want both tests they will be provided for just $5. Lab Express understands that knowledge is power...
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