A Troubling Lab Report 6-4-07
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Date updated:06-02-2007

FANS OF ABBOTT LABORATORIES ARE FOCUSED on the company's launch of a new drug-coated cardiac stent, which they believe could trump competitors' products and snare up to 40% of the $5 billion market. Expectations for the product have helped fuel a 50% increase in the past 18 months in shares of the Abbott Park, Ill.-based health-care concern, which closed Friday at 56.30.

But investors may be overlooking the fact that most of Abbott's profits come from its slower-growth, lower-multiple pharmaceutical division, not jazzy technologies. And some prominent doctors have started questioning the safety and efficacy of one of Abbott's best-selling drugs, TriCor, which helps patients lower triglycerides, a type of non-cholesterol fat.

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  • GSK
    Glaxosmithkline P
  • $41.47
  • -0.67%
  • $41.54

Concerns about fenofibrate center on creatinine, a substance produced by the muscles and eliminated by the kidneys. A rise in creatinine typically indicates some sort of kidney malfunction. Fenofibrates and other fibrate drugs have been known to result in elevated creatinine levels. A study published in March in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, showed that 19 patients, or 38% in a control group that took fenofibrate, saw their creatinine levels rise above what is considered the upper limits of normal

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  • MRK
    Merck Co Inc
  • $35.33
  • +0.54%
  • $35.09

Nissen also raised concerns about Vioxx as well

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  • ABI
    Safety First Trus
  • $11.20
  • -3.45%
  • $11.53

Barrons feels that the stock is pricey at 56- especially as questions about TriCor seem destined to grow

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  • AMGN
    Amgen Inc.
  • $56.06
  • -0.14%
  • $56.05

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  • DNA
    N/a
  • $80.43
  • 0.00
  • $80.43

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  • ABT
    Abbott Laboratori
  • $52.96
  • -0.41%
  • $52.89

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