GlaxoSmithKline shows slow core business growth and a promising drugs, while AstraZeneca’s main products are successful, but it lacks prospects, an analyst said Tuesday.
Banc of America Securities analyst Chris Schott, who is initiating coverage of Britain’s AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ), said its most popular drugs, including heartburn drug Nexium and cholesterol […]
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca will give $10 million to fund an American Cancer Society program that helps guide cancer patients through the health-care system, the company and the American Cancer Society said Wednesday.
The society said the money will help it develop 50 new sites for its Patient Navigator Program. One of the first three sites was […]
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Bob never took his prescribed blood pressure medication. He said he didn’t feel any different when he took it, so why bother?
Eventually, he developed cardiomyopathy. He had a diseased heart muscle. Six years after that diagnosis, my husband was dead at 67. Statistically, men live 5.4 years fewer than women, says the […]
Last year a noted study warned about a possible side effect of Prilosec, which belongs to a class of drugs called proton pump inhibitors. Its competitors include Nexium, Prevacid and Aciphex.
These drugs are powerful suppressors of acid production in the stomach and are highly effective in treating indigestion and abdominal pain stomach ulcers cause. They […]
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ — TUMS has long been associated with food, celebrations with friends and family, and fast relief from heartburn and indigestion. Now, they are shifting their trusted brand into high gear with TUMS Racing, which will be seen on the track, in the fan areas and on retail store shelves throughout the […]
Dear People’s Pharmacy: My husband is 55 years old, 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He has been on Lipitor for two years. His LDL (bad cholesterol) is still above 210. He hasn’t changed his diet of bacon cheeseburgers, steak, french fries, cookies and ice cream, and has two or three drinks a day because […]
AstraZeneca P.L.C. yesterday reported a strong 18 percent leap in quarterly profit and then handed employees pink slips, a stark sign of retrenchment across the pharmaceutical industry.
The London-based maker of heartburn medicine Nexium and high-cholesterol treatment Crestor said roughly 3,000 people in its manufacturing divisions, or 4.6 percent of its 65,000 employees worldwide, would lose […]