A patient taking the cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor has died, the drug's manufacturer reports. The death occurred in December 2004. Initial reports suggested the patient died of a muscle-damaging ...

New York, NY - An article in the Wall Street Journal reports that the share of new prescriptions for atorvastatin (Lipitor ®, Pfizer) surged during the past week with news out of the American College ...

The Food and Drug Administration is raising questions about the cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor, the newest in a class of drugs known as statins. The consumer group Public Citizen has long been ...

London, UK, 25 October 2004. New data presented today from several studies involving more than 5,000 patients provide further evidence of the outstanding efficacy of CRESTOR TM (rosuvastatin) in ...

The term cardiovascular disease (CVD) refers to a wide range of disorders affecting the heart and blood vessels. CVD can be sub-divided into the following diseases: coronary heart disease (CHD) (e.g.