The widely used cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor has at least twice the incidence of side effects as other drugs in the statin family, although it should still be considered safe for long-term use, ...

DALLAS -- Contrary to government claims, side effects happen more often with Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that consumer advocates tried to get off the market earlier this year, a new analysis ...

Effectiveness and side effects of medication may differ from individual to individual. Patients should always consult a medical professional before taking or using any medication. Rosuvastatin crestor ...

Crestor rosuvastatin calcium is a statin drug, that works by slowing the production of cholesterol by the body, used to lower cholesterol and fats triglycerides in the blood and is used to reduce the ...

The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to block an ad touting the safety of the cholesterol drug Crestor, calling the claims misleading. The agency asked the drug maker, AstraZeneca, to ...

A consumer advocate is urging the government to ban the new anti-cholesterol drug Crestor, citing new cases of a life-threatening muscle side effect among patients taking a low dose thought to ...

Current international and national guidelines[2,3,4] continue to stress the significance of reducing LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C), an important risk factor for the development and progression of ...

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 rate of serious muscle damage in patients who took AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical's cholesterol drug Crestor was six times higher than with similar medicines, the consumer group Public Citizen said ...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc's cholesterol drug Crestor significantly slowed build-up of plaque in the main artery supplying blood to the brain compared with a placebo in a two-year study ...

LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca has seen off a remaining threat to its top-selling cholesterol drug Crestor by settling a U.S. legal case with generic firms Watson Laboratories, a unit of Actavis , and ...

DALLAS - Contrary to government claims, side effects happen more often with Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that consumer advocates tried to get off the market earlier this year, a new analysis ...