Tests promise 'blockbuster' new heart failure drug

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Tests promise 'blockbuster' new heart failure drug

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/tests-promise-blockbuster-heart-failure-drug-082535425.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UNGwT7kZzQ.znzEQMy8Ipw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/3919ef11a272090461bada1804da764c9cc9371e.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis headquarter building is pictured on January 28, 2009 in Basel" align="left" title="Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis headquarter building is pictured on January 28, 2009 in Basel" border="0" /></a>An experimental drug from Swiss pharma giant Novartis reduced deaths from chronic heart failure by 20 percent compared with an existing treatment, according to the results of a vast new study. Cardiovascular failure, in which the heart does not pump blood effectively, kills at least 26 million people a year worldwide. Novartis unveiled the highly anticipated results on Saturday at a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology in Barcelona, Spain and simultaneously in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study -- conducted with more than 8,400 patients in 47 countries over 27 months -- compared the safety and effectiveness of the drug on patients with heart failure to the current gold standard, Enalapril.</p><br clear="all"/>

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