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Heart Drug's Usage Causes Concern Among Some Doctors
Jul 12, 2005 | Boston Globe
Shortly after the Food and Drug Administration in 2001 approved the heart failure drug Natrecor for hospitalized patients, two sales representatives...
Panel Advise Limited Use of Heart Drug Natrecor
Jun 15, 2005 | www.news-medical.net
An independent panel of experts say heart-failure drug Natrecor should be restricted and only used with acutely ill hospitalized patients.They want...
Tug-of-War Over Heart Drug
May 23, 2005 | Newsday
A year ago, Michael Chiarello was in a wheelchair, dependent and depressed, helpless as his life was being slowly stolen by heart failure.The...
Nesiritide May Be Associated With Increased Risk of Mortality
May 23, 2005 | www.medscape.com
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Scios, Inc., have alerted healthcare professionals via letter of several published reports that...
RADAR Finds Drug Reactions
May 4, 2005 | www.redherring.com
Researchers in Chicago reported Wednesday they have found a large number of previously unknown and often fatal reactions to 14 commonly prescribed...
FDA Orders Heart-Risk Info on Drugs
Apr 25, 2005 | AP
The Food and Drug Administration is ordering that more information about the risk of death from a heart failure drug be added to the package insert...
Scientists Issue Warning On Heart-Failure Drug
Apr 20, 2005 | Newsday
A drug designed to rescue heart-failure patients from crisis may instead dramatically increase their risk of dying within 30 days of leaving the...
Researchers Question Safety of Heart Drug
Apr 20, 2005 | AP
A genetically engineered drug made by a Fremont biotechnology company that was hailed as a breakthrough in the treatment of heart failure when it was...
J&J Drug Raises Safety Concerns
Apr 20, 2005 | The Star Ledger
Patients given a Johnson & Johnson drug for congestive heart failure may face an 80 percent higher risk of dying within a month of treatment,...
New Heart Drug Carries Risks
Apr 20, 2005 | www.usnews.com
About 1 million people are hospitalized every year for acutely decompensated heart failure (heart failure in which symptoms get suddenly worse) and...
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