Recent news on Cerivastatin

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association  -  May 16, 2007
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association (subscription)In 2001 Baycol (cerivastatin sodium; Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Berlin, Germany) was removed from the market owing to several rhabdomyolysis cases in the United

PDUFA Reauthorization — Drug Safety's Golden Moment of Opportunity?  -  Apr 13, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),More recent events that have captured the public's attention include the market withdrawals of troglitazone, cerivastatin, and rofecoxib.

Statins Attenuate Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Inducing Heme ...  -  Mar 27, 2007
Am J Pathology (subscription)Cerivastatin was administered via gavage (0.5 mg/kg) for 3 days before IR injury; controls received vehicle. Statin pretreatment reduced renal damage and

The Role of Litigation in Defining Drug Risks  -  Jan 16, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),For example, cerivastatin was removed from the market after being linked to 31 deaths and many more hospitalizations caused by adverse effects,

Gastrointestinal Medications  -  Jan 5, 2007
Psychosomatics (subscription)Studies specifically evaluating omeprazole’s impact on other medications have shown no effect or no clinical impact on metoprolol, 11 cerivastatin,

Suboptimal Statin Use Seen Common and Harmful  -  Dec 7, 2006
MedPage Today,47%), Pravachol (pravastatin, 23%), or Lipitor (atorvastatin, 22%), though Lescol (fluvastatin, 6%) and Baycol (cerivastatin, 2%) were used as well.

STATINS’ – THE GAME BEGINS  Oct 19, 2006
The withdrawal of Bayer’s Baycol (cerivastatin) has heightened awareness of the adverse effects of statins and has meant that considerable emphasis has been ... -Patent Baristas, Suboptimal Statin Use Seen Common and Harmful  -  Dec 7, 2006
MedPage Today,47%), Pravachol (pravastatin, 23%), or Lipitor (atorvastatin, 22%), though Lescol (fluvastatin, 6%) and Baycol (cerivastatin, 2%) were used as well.



Clinical Data Announces Research Collaboration Agreement with Duke ...  May 15, 2006
Data STRENGTH studies involved evaluating the response of 679 patients to atorvastatin, pravastatin, simvastatin, lovastatin and cerivastatin; and genotyped ... - PharmacoGenomicsOnline.com

German firms resort to consolidation to restore glory days  May 5, 2006
...of all such activities, until it was forced to become active and to restructure after the withdrawal of its lipid-lowering drug Lipobay (cerivastatin) from the ... - Nature.com (subscription)

Scientists uncover gene mutation key to cholesterol control  Apr 20, 2006
Drugs in this group include: Lipitor (atorvastatin); Baycol (cerivastatin); Lescol (fluvastatin); Mevacor (lovastatin); Pravachol (pravastatin); Zocor ... - DrugResearcher.com





DATAMONITOR: New Advertising Code of Conduct Established in ...  Mar 10, 2006
Problems with drugs such as Rezulin (troglitazone) and Baycol (cerivastatin) for example, have had little effect on the blockbuster potential of competitor ... - PharmaLive.com

Bayer rides forth as Schering's white knight  Mar 24, 2006
Lanxess, and re-building the healthcare business in the wake of the damaging withdrawal of cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol/Lipobay (cerivastatin) in 2001. ... - Pharma Times (subscription)

New advertising code of conduct established in Vioxx withdrawal ...  Mar 9, 2006
Problems with drugs such as Sankyo and Parke-Davis' Rezulin (troglitazone) and Bayer's Baycol (cerivastatin) for example, have had little effect on the ... - Pharmaceutical Business Review

Statins in coronary artery disease  Jan 28, 2006
This family of statins has seven members. They are lovastatin, fluvastatin, pravastatin, simvastatin, rosuvastatin, atorvastatin and cerivastatin. ... - Malaysia Star

Studies: Statins Don't Cut Risk of Colon, Other Cancers  Jan 9, 2006
The specific statins studied included atorvastatin (Lipitor, Caduet), cerivastatin (Baycol), fluvastatin (Lescol), lovastatin (Advicor, Altoprev, Mevacor ... - ACS News Center

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