All Posts Tagged With: "heart"
Trasylol Increases the Risk of Death
Use of the blood-saving drug aprotinin (Trasylol) during coronary bypass surgery significantly increases the risk of death, according to data from two large studies.
Patients treated with aprotinin had an almost a two-fold greater mortality compared with patients given aminocaproic acid during heart surgery, Sebastian Schneeweiss, M.D., Sc.D., of Harvard, and colleagues, reported in the Feb. [...]
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26Feb2008 | PharmaWatchDog | 0 comments | Continued
Pfizer Pulls Doctor Ad for Lipitor
Pfizer said today that it was pulling the plug on advertising that features Robert Jarvik, M.D., promoting the benefit of atorvastatin (Lipitor).
The Pfizer decision was included in a letter to Reps. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and [...]
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25Feb2008 | PharmaWatchDog | 0 comments | Continued
Drug Ads Raise Questions for Heart Pioneer
Dr. Robert Jarvik is best known for the artificial heart he pioneered more than a quarter-century ago. Since then he had toiled in relative obscurity — until he began appearing in television ads two years ago for the Pfizer cholesterol drug Lipitor.
The ads have depicted him, among other outdoorsy pursuits, rowing a one-man racing shell [...]
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7Feb2008 | PharmaWatchDog | 0 comments | Continued
