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MEDICAL
Medco Health rallies on Q4 profit
The large pharmacy benefits management firm said its Q4 EPS rose 14% to 66 cents ex items, 5 cents above views. Revenue grew 21% to $10.8 bil on volume from new clients and higher prices of brand-name drugs. Medco forecast '06 profit of $2.57-$2.64, excluding 13-16 cents in options expenses. Analysts expect $2.60. Shares jumped 6.4% to $59.28.
Pfizer's Celebrex increases risks
Users of Celebrex, a common painkiller and treatment for arthritis, have doubled the risk of a heart attack, said researchers at New Zealand's Medical Research Institute. Celebrex is a key product for Pfizer, the world's No. 1 drug maker. The institute said Celebrex's heart attack risk is on the same level as rival drugs. Merck pulled its anti-arthritis drug ...
- Fed: Heart attack rates down 20 per cent in six years: Report.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire September 19, 2002 700+ words
...coronary heart disease fell 30 per cent over the same period. Deaths...heart attacks fell almost 16 per cent. Despite the improvement...66 of them died. And 40 per cent of Australians had two or more...increase in procedures to help heart attack victims, such as cardiac bypass...
- Heart attack - recognising the fatal signs.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 29, 2004 700+ words
...these deaths. And in most cases a heart attack is the first and only visible sign of their condition. About 30 per cent of deaths due to a heart attack occur within the first hour; with 60 per cent of these taking place outside the...
- Insulin can prevent heart attack deaths: Study.
- Newspaper article from: Statesman (India) November 8, 2006 700+ words
...may prevent 40 per cent of heart attack-related deaths...damage to heart in heart attack patients by about 40 per cent, Dr Paresh Dandona...reduced by 40 per cent in 24 hours by use of insulin. In a heart attack, levels of this...
- Heart attack victims hit by ambulance underfunding.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire February 6, 2007 700+ words
...they are only funded to 66 per cent of the standard". Officials believe delays in reaching heart attack victims could account for a shortfall...The Government says that 69 per cent of heart attack victims who are suitable for clot...
- LANDMARK DIOVAN TRIAL PROVES BENEFITS FOR HEART ATTACK SUFFERERS.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 11, 2003 700+ words
...option for treating high-risk heart attack survivors." Approved for the...risk patients following a heart attack. The co-chair of VALIANT...risk for premature death after heart attack by 25 per cent An active-control trial...
- Heart attack: the warning signs.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 8, 2005 700+ words
...Among Australians who have a heart attack, more than four in 10 will...within a year. Over half of all heart attack deaths occur before the person...hospital. ''About 25 per cent of those who have a heart attack die within an hour of the first...
- Independent Nurse: What the Papers said.(Research of Heart Attack)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: GP June 24, 2005 700+ words
...adjusting for other heart attack risk factors, they...months before their heart attack had an increased risk of MI of 24 per cent compared with those...rofecoxib a 32 per cent increased risk...increased risk of heart attack, questions remain...
- An ASPIRIN(R) A Day Keeps First Heart Attack Away - Health Canada Confirms It;...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 31, 2002 700+ words
...first four hours of a heart attack to reduce a person...fatality by up to 25 per cent. Acute MI results...block arteries during heart attack. ASPIRIN(R) has...reoccurrence of a heart attack or stroke by 26-28 per cent.(2) Patients...
- Global study shows telmisartan reduces outcome of cardiovascular death, heart...
- Newspaper article from: Heart Disease Weekly September 21, 2008 700+ words
...cardiovascular death, heart attack, stroke or hospitalization...a relative eight per cent (17 per cent in the...compared to 15.8 per cent in the telmisartan group...cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke (and not hospitalization...a significant 13 per cent (14.8 ...
- Sex safe after a heart attack.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire September 24, 2002 700+ words
...of a subsequent heart attack during sex is less than one per cent. Regular exercise...more than 80 per cent of men who died...common after a heart attack or diagnosis of...have suffered a heart attack, 40 per cent will have problems...