STATIN
Attendees at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research learned that while the results of a study conducted at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, showed that atorva statin (Lipitor) and celecoxib (Celebrex) individually slowed tumor progression from androgen-dependent to androgen-independent status, the two drugs combined had additive growth-inhibiting activity compared with either drug alone.
1 Approximately 750,000 patients develop sepsis each year.
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) include the spectrum of clinical conditions ranging from unstable angina to non-Q-wave myocardial infarction (MI) and Q-wave MI.