Plavix Gets FDA Okay for New Indication
The antiplatelet medication Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate) received US Food and Drug Administration approval for use in acute coronary syndrome. People with acute coronary syndrome are at high risk for heart attack, typically because they have unstable angina, or heart disease-related chest pain. About 1.1 to 1.4 million Americans experience acute coronary syndrome each year.// ....Plavix was fi...Generic Competitor for Plavix Blocked in US
Never mind Sicko. Everyday expressions of outrage over the soaring healthcare costs dont seem to matter either for US judges. A Canadian company's cheap generic version of the blood thinner Plavix has been blocked from the U.S. market until at least 2011. U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein said Tuesday that Apotex Inc. had failed to prove during a three-week trial in New York City earlier this...Sanofi-Aventis Allows Thais To Make Plavix
The generic version of Plavix, the heart disease medicine of Sanofi-Aventis will be made indigenously in Thailand. This was announced by the pharma company on Tuesday.// ..As per the offer made by Sanofa-Aventis, the health ministry has approved plans to buy or make imitated version of the drug. The statement released by the drug firm states that indigenous making of the heart drug will benefit...A new study finds the popular anti-clotting drug clopidogrel (Plavix) when taken along with aspirin after off-pump heart bypass surgery, is safe without any adverse bleeding event.// ..The study, to be presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 56th Annual Scientific Session on March 27 at 9 am (abstract 1027-18), found that Plavix, when used in addition to aspirin, will not worsen bleed...Never mind the side-effects of Plavix, (generic name clopidogrel), the popular anti-blood-clotting drug . ......A new study reveals doubling the current recommended dose of Plavix to angioplasty patients, from 300 milligrams to 600, cut the combined risk of heart attack and cardiac death by half. ......Dr. Anthony Abbate, an assistant professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University sa...