Archive forJanuary, 2007

Ranbaxy gets FDA nod for high blood pressure drug

Ranbaxy gets FDA nod for high blood pressure drug
MSN MoneyCentral - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given approval to Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. to manufacture and market a drug to treat high blood pressure. Ranbaxy will make and sell Atenolol tablets in three different dosages. The drug is the generic …

Study: More Americans with high blood pressure are controlling it, especially older folks 

Study: More Americans with high blood pressure are controlling it, especially older folks 
Researchers say Americans with high blood pressure are doing a better job of controlling it. A new study says 37 percent of people with high blood pressure had it under control in 2003 and 2004, compared to 29 percent in a study done four years earlier.

Samaranch suffering high blood pressure, to be released in coming days …

Samaranch suffering high blood pressure, to be released in coming days …
Turkish Daily News - Liverpool, Barca, Lazio in Champions League Sweden banks on stalwarts Larsson is widely expected to team up with Heerenveen’s Marcus Allback in the Swedish attack against both Macedonia and Turkey Samaranch suffering high blood pressure, to be …

Strengthening and Updating European Guidelines for the Management of …

Strengthening and Updating European Guidelines for the Management of …
Medscape News - The joint European Society of Hypertension/European Society of Cardiology (ESH/ESC) guidelines for the management of hypertension were published in 2003, [1] and have since become the most frequently cited publication in the medical literature. Since …

FDA asked to review hypertension drug 

FDA asked to review hypertension drug 
Gilead Sciences Inc. said Monday it has submitted a new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a drug to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Home tests for stress, cholesterol and blood pressure

Home tests for stress, cholesterol and blood pressure
Chicago Tribune - If you’re shopping for the hypochondriac in your family or just someone who really cares about health, the Q section has a few self-help ideas that we really liked. Just remember: Self-monitoring is no excuse to avoid the doctor. Stress: If you think …

Fido and Fluffy can have hypertension, too

Fido and Fluffy can have hypertension, too
Orlando Sentinel - Blood-pressure measurements have been a standard in human medicine for many years. Thanks to recent advances in blood-pressure measurements for our pets, it is now becoming more common for routine, annual, pet health checkups. As a result …

Ranbaxy gets FDA nod for high blood pressure drug

Ranbaxy gets FDA nod for high blood pressure drug
MSN MoneyCentral - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given approval to Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. to manufacture and market a drug to treat high blood pressure. Ranbaxy will make and sell Atenolol tablets in three different dosages. The drug is the generic …

Encysive rolls out hypertension drug in Germany 

Encysive rolls out hypertension drug in Germany 
Encysive Pharmaceuticals Inc., which has struggled this with U.S. federal regulators to approve its hypertension drug Thelin, has launched the product in Germany.

Novartis’ blood pressure drug Exforge receives tentative FDA approval 

Novartis’ blood pressure drug Exforge receives tentative FDA approval 
The treatment is expected to be available in the US in late September, 2007, pending the expiration of market exclusivity and patent protection for amlodipine besylate.

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