The new cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor has more potentially harmful side effects than similar drugs and should be taken off the market, according to a lengthy correspondence published in today ...

A new Crestor investigation, which analyzes muscle and kidney problems reported to the Food and Drug Administration, said the statin should be used only in instances when other statins failed to ...

Crestor, made by AstraZeneca and prescribed to 2.1 million U.S. patients, is the most potent LDL-lowering statin sold. But Rosenberg weighs the "relationship between potency and toxicity.

Crestor, Senay continues, is a much newer drug than Lipitor and Zocor, having only been on the market a little over a year. The first statin hit the market in 1987, and Lipitor, the most popular ...

BOSTON-Adverse event reports from the FDA suggest that Crestor is more likely to cause muscle and kidney damage than other major statins (Lipitor, Pravachol or Zocor), researchers here reported in the ...

In Crestor’s first year on the market after being approved in 2003, there were 145 reported muscle or kidney complications out of 5.2 million prescriptions, an absolute risk of one in 35,862.

In the statin wars, there's little question that AstraZeneca's cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor is the most powerful when it comes to lowering LDL, the bad cholesterol, and giving a boost to good ...

Crestor and Lipitor also help prevent heart attacks and strokes. While they’re primarily used in adults, both are approved to treat high cholesterol in children with inherited conditions.

AstraZeneca's Crestor is the most powerful statin on the market when it comes to lowering bad cholesterol, but it still struggles for respect among doctors and patients against Pfizer's $13 ...

The cholesterol drug Crestor (search) is being relabeled to add a warning that starter doses should be reduced in Asian-Americans and some other patients. The Food and Drug Administration said ...

A patient taking the cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor has died, the drug's manufacturer reports. The death occurred in December 2004. Initial reports suggested the patient died of a muscle ...

Is Crestor dangerous? There have been rumors to that effect for years. Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration said no, arguing that there was no scientific evidence to implicate the drug.