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DewDiligence

02/09/10 4:37 AM

#90346 RE: DewDiligence #87602

FDA approves Crestor (as expected) for patients with normal cholesterol levels and high CRP (see the prologue of #msg-44569078 for background info):

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-FDA-Approves-New-prnews-1388205873.html?x=0&.v=1

This approval, based on the JUPITER study, could conceivably make Crestor the world’s largest-selling drug when Lipitor and Plavix go off-patent in the next couple of years.