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Review of study presented at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

In the study presented today at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Florida today, The Effect of Extended-release Niacin or Ezetimibe Added to Chronic Statin Therapy On Carotid Intima Media Thickness , study found that: Adding the cholesterol drug niacin to a statin improved HDL cholesterol levels and significantly ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor, Medication, Zetia, Ezetimibe (generic), Health

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Philly.com

Diabetes on 54 cents a day

A month's supply of some of the latest diabetes medicines can cost more than $100 or even $200 if a patient is forced to pay out of pocket, says diabetes doctor Mark Schutta.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Metformin (generic), Glucophage

Examiner.com

Niacin side effects

Niacin: Safe and effective treatment for cholesterol? Lynn MacPherson Niacin: Safe and effective treatment for cholesterol? Many Americans battle high cholesterol levels and are looking for treatments that are safe and effective with few side effects.

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Related Topix: Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor, Medicine, Medication, Health

The Post Chronicle

Benefit Of Merck Heart Drug Remains After Stopping

High doses of an experimental heart medicine being developed by Merck & Co MRK.N continued to show beneficial effects on both good HDL and bad LDL cholesterol levels eight weeks after patients stopped taking the drug, in a mid-stage study.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Pfizer, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Law, Law

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Daily Mail

Drug can halve heart attacks in the healthy: Statins give 'unprecedented' cut in risk, say doctors

A drug has been found to cut the risk of heart attacks by almost half in 'healthy' people, researchers say today.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Women's Health

ABC News

Moody's Gives Negative View on Pharma Credit

Moody's Investors Service issued a negative opinion on the pharmaceutical industry Thursday, saying drugmaker credit ratings will be under pressure until early 2012 because they won't be able to fully replace revenue from best-sellers that go off-patent. Over the 12 to 18 months, billion-dollar drugs like Pfizer's cholesterol drug Lipitor and ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Forbes

Answering The Vytorin Question

A trial showing that a form of niacin cleared arteries far better than Merck's Zetia cholesterol pill could have been disaster for the big drug maker.

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Related Topix: Zetia, Ezetimibe (generic), Medication, Biotech, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor, Health, Public Relations

Wed Nov 18, 2009

GroundReport.com

Do latest studies show niacin may work better than prescription drugs at lowering cholesterol?

Latest studies have reviewed the data and the effects, and found that the simplest solution, natural niacin is still the best way to lower your LDL cholesterol that signifies calcification, and raise your HDL cholesterol that removes the cholesterol before it calcifies your arteries and organs.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor, Health, Zetia, Ezetimibe (generic)

WOIO

Niacin Adds No Benefit for Statin Patients: Study

Taking the B vitamin niacin offers no additional benefit to seniors with coronary artery disease who are already prescribed cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, U.S. researchers say.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor, Medication, Health, Johns Hopkins University, Lipitor, Atorvastatin (generic), Zocor, Simvastatin (generic), Orlando Metro

Drugs.com

Pfizer Inc Submits New Pediatric Data for Lipitor to EMEA

From EquityBites Health care company Pfizer Inc declared on Wednesday the submission of paediatric data for Lipitor to the European Medicines Agency .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Lipitor, Atorvastatin (generic), Medication, Pfizer, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Law, Law

Los Angeles Times

U.S. cholesterol levels going down

The development of statins, a class of drugs that lower bad cholesterol, have made a big effect.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Drugs.com

Incidence of High Cholesterol Drops in U.S.

The good news is that a new report shows the percentage of American adults with high LDL cholesterol, the "bad" kind that clogs arteries, decreased by about one-third between 1999 and 2006.

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Related Topix: Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Life, Food, Nutrition

The Post Chronicle

Isis Cholesterol Drug Meets All Goals Of Key Trial

An experimental drug for patients genetically disposed to extreme high cholesterol being developed by Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc and Genzyme Corp significantly lowered cholesterol in a pivotal late-stage study, according to data presented on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Biotech, Isis Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Genzyme General

HON

New Study Raises New Questions About Cholesterol Drug Zetia

A new study raises more questions about ezetimibe , a drug used by millions of Americans in tandem with statins to lower LDL, or "bad," cholesterol.

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Related Topix: Zetia, Ezetimibe (generic), Medication, Medicine, Health, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Biotech, Merck , Orlando Metro

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Associated Content

Niacin: What is it Exactly?

Niacin is a B vitamin that is usually taken as a nutritional supplement but also occurs naturally in our systems.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor, Medication, Health, Zetia, Ezetimibe (generic)

ZDNet

Niacin best for raising good cholesterol

Want more of that good HDL cholesterol ? Try a timed-release niacin, and be skeptical if your doctor gives the sales pitch for Zetia or Vytorin.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor, Medication, Health, Zetia, Ezetimibe (generic), Zocor, Simvastatin (generic)

Medical News

Effect of niacin or ezetimibe added to chronic statin therapy on...

In patients with or at high-risk for coronary artery disease and LDL treated with statins to < 100mg/dL but low HDL , adding medication to raise HDL was compared with lowering LDL further.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Zetia, Ezetimibe (generic), Medication, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor

Sun Nov 15, 2009

SignOnSanDiego.com

Study raises new questions about Merck pill Zetia

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3:16 p.m. ORLANDO, Fla. - A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin - drugs that are still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.

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Related Topix: Zetia, Ezetimibe (generic), Medication, Biotech, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Orlando Metro, Orlando, FL, Health, Niacin (generic), Niaspan, Niacor

Associated Content

Should Cholesterol Treatments Be Avoided for the Fear of Side Effects?

For the past few years the fear of side effects has created negativity in people towards the conventional treatments and has made many of them to take a shift to the alternate medicine.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Fri Nov 13, 2009

MediaPost Publications

Google and Yahoo Claim FDA Warning Resulted In Fuzzier Pharma Ads

Executives from Google and Yahoo told the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday that its crackdown on sponsored links has, in some ways, resulted in search ads that are worse for both consumers and marketers.

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Medicine, Health

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