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• The Vytorin Limbo: How Low Can You Go?

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 580
  Prescriptions for both of Merck’s cholesterol pills - Vytorin and Zetia - fell last week, while scrips for Abbott Labs’ Niaspan rose following the results of the widely reported Arbiter clinical trial, according to SDI, a market research firm, Dow Jones reports. The Arbiter trial found that Niaspan helped ...
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• Whytorin? Should HHS Spend Millions On The Drug?

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 580
  In light of the controversy over the Arbiter trial , which found that Abbott Labs’ Niaspan appeared safer and more effective that Merck’s Zetia as a secondary cholesterol treatment, Chuck Grassley wants to know what the Department of Health and Human Services is going to do about spending on Vytorin (which is a ...
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• Merck’s $4.56 billion anti-cholesterol drugs no better than cheap B-vitamin

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 531
  ( AARP Bulletin ) A widely prescribed and expensive cholesterol drug is not as effective as niacin, a cheap vitamin, in helping to unclog coronary arteries in people already taking statins, the standard medicines used to lower cholesterol, according to a new study. The research, which appears Monday in the New ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zetia, Vytorin Problems Continue With Latest Study

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 539
  In the latest blow to popular cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia , new research indicates that the medications may be less effective than older drugs in reducing the buildup of cholesterol in arteries, and were actually associated with more heart attacks and other heart-related incidents. The new study, known ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inexpensive Supplement Niacin Better Than Zetia

  
  Midlife womens health tips, tools and resources — Authority: 112
  Yesterday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports that the very inexpensive nutritional supplement niacin worked better to clear arteries than the not so cheap and side effect rich drugs Zetia– a drug used in addition to a statin, and Vyotrin– a single pill which combines a statin with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bugs, Drugs and Patents

  
  Bio Job Blog — Authority: 420
  I suspect that many of you (after reading the title of this post) might be expecting another rant about the need for new antibiotics to treat infections caused by multiple drug resistant strains of bacteria. Sorry to disappoint you because that isn’t what this post is about. After reading and listening to several ...
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• Impactiviti Daily 111709

  
  Impactiviti blog — Authority: 408
  Whew! The back-to-back conference marathon is now over, and we can get back to our regular pharma news reporting. Here’s what’s up today… TODAY’S NEWS Everyone’s talking about the Zetia/Niaspan study – its results, its significance, its limitations. Bottom line – I can’t see how this can be good ...
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• Popular Cholesterol Drugs Shown Harmful and Ineffective

  
  Baby Boomer Advisor Club|Baby Boomer Health and News — Authority: 440
  Popular Cholesterol Drugs Shown Harmful and Ineffective and very expensive. So, who is taking them? I would say that the majority of users are Baby Boomers. A recent study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its kissing cousin, Vytorin. These drugs that are supposed to lower cholesterol, are still taken by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Meteor Showers....How nice

  
  AOL Hot Searches — Authority: 128
  Meteor showers are so cool! This year we will have had the ability to see 7 different events. Meteor showers happen when a group of meteors come together at a particular time of year. Usually we see them when the Earth travels through the debris that the comet has shed during its orbit. The different showers are named ...
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• Investors Seem Unshaken After Study of Merck Drug

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The results of the long-awaited trial could have been worse for Zetia, the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug, analysts said, and the drug maker’s shares rose.
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• Zetia & Vytorin Outperformed by Niaspan (Rx form of Niacin) in New Cholesterol Study

  
  Swanson Vitamins Blog — Authority: 117
  Posted by Ben: In case you missed the headlines this morning on all the national news shows, a new study was released today that basically called out Merck’s Zetia and Vytorin cholesterol-lowering drugs. According to the researchers who conducted the study, these two prescription drugs don’t work...at least not as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study Raises New Questions About Cholesterol Drug Zetia

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 543
  (HealthDay News) -- A new study raises more questions about ezetimibe (Zetia), a drug used by millions of Americans in tandem with statins to lower LDL, or "bad," cholesterol. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Niacin Tops Zetia in Cutting Artery Plaque

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  A prescription version of niacin beat out the cholesterol drug Zetia in slowing the buildup of plaque in artery walls, researchers report.
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• Watch AHA highlights - ARBITER 6-HALTS

  
  PharmaGossip — Authority: 514
  http://directnews.americanheart.org/ Plus: A great read!
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• Niacin Beats Zetia

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 133
  Once again vitamins top the list for better health. AHA: Niacin Bests Ezetimibe Boosting HDL cholesterol with extended-release niacin (Niaspan) is a more effective way of slowing atherosclerosis in high-risk patients on long-term statin therapy than seeking additional LDL cholesterol reductions by adding ezetimibe ...
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  wisnuaji dot com — Authority: 448
  Zetia Fails to Show Benefit Over Niacin for Heart PatientsResults reported here Sunday may not put the nail in the coffin for a once wildly popular cholesterol-lowering drug, but they do put Zetia at the bottom of the list of medications that doctors will be using.So said Dr. Anthony DeMaria, a leading cardiologist ...
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• Obama on Freedoms,Twitter in China

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  During a town hall meeting held in China, President Obama answered questions about individual freedoms and twitter access. Bill Plante reports.
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• Cholesterol Drug Controversy

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  The prescription drug Zetia is under attack after a study found the drug to be ineffective. Dr.
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• Study: Niaspan More Effective in Combatting Artery Thickness than Vytorin, Zetia

  
  Business Pundit — Authority: 659
  Image: 3D Chem A clinical trial has found that Merck’s Vytorin and Zetia cholesterol pills don’t treat clogged arteries as effectively as Abbott Labs’ Niaspan, a form of Niacin (Vitamin B3). Bloomberg reports : In a clinical trial reported yesterday, researchers found a decrease in the thickness of ...
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• Another study questions Merck’s cholesterol medicine, Zetia

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 173
  EPAMerck, strenghthened by its acquisition of Schering-Plough, becomes the No. 2 drug makerORLANDO, Fla. — A study released Sunday raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin — drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite…See more here: Another study questions Merck’s ...
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