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Article: Common prostate drug is ineffective - Hytrin works better. (Hytrin vs Proscar)
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- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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The first study to compare the two most commonly prescribed drugs for prostate enlargement has been published by the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Group (New England Journal of Medicine, 22 August 1996). It found Proscar to be ineffec- tive and Hytrin to be helpful in alleviating the urinary symptoms that occur in older men whose prostates have enlarged to the point of constricting the urethra. The condition is called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
Both drugs were compared, separately or in combination with a placebo, in a large multi-center study headed by Herbert Lepor, M.D. of New York University Medical Center, New York City. The study was funded in part by ...
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Article: HYTRIN BEATS PROSCAR IN PROSTATE DRUG STUDY.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
August 22, 1996 ;
688 words
... ... discomfort by about a third, while Proscar works no better than dummy ... the majority of patients, Proscar is no more than ``an expensive ... said Dr. Herbert Lepor of New York University Medical Center ... amp; Co., which makes Proscar, and Abbott Laboratories Inc ...
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