Faulding & Co has received approval from the US Food and DrugAdministration for spironolactone tablets (50mg and 100mg), the generic equivalent of GD Searle's aldosterone antagonist Aldactone. The drug sparked media interest recently following the publication of data in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrating that the addition of spironolactone to conventional treatment regimens for heart failure, reduced mortality rates by 30% (Marketletter July 21). Branded sales of the drug for the year to March 1999 amounted to $38 million.
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