heart attacks

A new study raises new concerns about Zetia and Vytorin, drugs taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol. According to an article by the Associated Press on Philly.com, Zetia failed to shrink buildups in artery walls while a rival drug, Niaspan, did so significantly. Zetia users also suffered more heart attacks and other problems although the numbers of these events were too small to draw firm conclusions [...]

On November 17, federal health officials said that a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack and stroke. The Associated Press reported in an article that the Food and Drug Administration said the drugs Prilosec and Nexium cut in half the blood-thinning effect of Plavix, known generically as clopidogre [...]

According to an article on Philly.com, a $4.85 billion fund was set up so that Merck & Co. Inc. can compensate kin of those who died of heart attacks or strokes. The claims are from the families of more than 3,100 users of its Vioxx painkiller who died of heart attacks or strokes because of the drug. The fund will pay about 3,000 claims for heart-attack deaths and at least 122 for strokes. Merck launched Vioxx i [...]

According to an article on Philly.com, a $4.85 billion fund was set up so that Merck & Co. Inc. can compensate kin of those who died of heart attacks or strokes. The claims are from the families of more than 3,100 users of its Vioxx painkiller who died of heart attacks or strokes because of the drug. The fund will pay about 3,000 claims for heart-attack deaths and at least 122 for strokes. Merck launched Vioxx i [...]