Thursday, April 3, 2008

Crestor - I guess my doctor made the right choice!

With all the recent news about the benefit of cholesterol lowering statin drugs, I stumbled across this article today. My doctor has had me taking Crestor since Lipitor caused some side effects. Despite this news, I am still taking both Crestor and Zetia and am waiting to hear from my doctor about the Zetia. When I talked to him a few months ago, he told me to continue taking it.

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Astra Drug Tipped as $8-9 Billion Cholesterol WinnerReuters Health - Apr. 01, 2008
By Ben Hirschler

LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc's Crestor is emerging as a potential big winner in the fiercely competitive anti-cholesterol market, with two brokerages on Tuesday hiking sales forecasts for the drug to $8-9 billion.
Shares in the Anglo-Swedish group, which have been hit recently by fears of generic competition to its top medicines, jumped for a second day, adding 5.5 percent by 1200 GMT, the biggest daily gain in more than four months.
Japan's Shionogi & Co Ltd, which originally developed Crestor, soared more than 9 percent.
JPMorgan said positive results from a clinical ...