Article: Your hometown pharmacist: Vytorin, Zocor comparison doesn't put one above other

Article: Ads, research undermine Vytorin
Oakland Tribune;  April 6, 2008 ;     441 words ......addition to doctors' heart disease arsenal. It's hard to miss the clever Vytorin ad campaign about...absorption, would fight heart disease better than statins...simply won't know if Vytorin, which costs about...cholesterol suggested Vytorin didn't perform...on one gauge of ...

Article: Ads, research undermine Vytorin; Manufacturers' conduct casts doubt on drug and industry.(NEWS)(Editorial)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 3, 2008 ;     475 words ......addition to doctors' heart disease arsenal. It's hard to miss the clever Vytorin ad campaign about...absorption, would fight heart disease better than statins...simply won't know if Vytorin, which costs about...cholesterol suggested Vytorin didn't perform...on one gauge of ...

Article: Doctors leery to prescribe Vytorin after key study flops.(Front)
The Virginian Pilot;  March 31, 2008 ;     566 words ......failed trial on Vytorin, a medicine taken...did not improve heart disease even though it...factors. Use of Vytorin and a related drug...way to prevent heart disease. Statins like Merck...other medicines. Vytorin, which came out...using it or any heart drug without ...

Article: Vytorin study raises questions about Cholesterol's Import.
HealthFacts;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......million prescriptions for Vytorin and Zetia are written...equivalent amount of Vytorin costs about $100. It...get away with it. When Vytorin came on the market two...sought FDA approval for Vytorin. Their FDA-required trials...middle-aged men and those with heart disease or diabetes. ...

Article: Leading doctors shun new cholesterol drug Vytorin
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 31, 2008 ;     327 words ......Sunday of a failed trial of Vytorin. Millions of Americans...were stunned to learn that Vytorin failed to improve heart disease even though it worked as...watched because Zetia and Vytorin have racked up $5 billion...cholesterol as a way to prevent heart disease. Statins like ...

Article: New Rx as cholesterol drug fails; Doctors advise a return to older treatments after Vytorin disclosure.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 31, 2008 ;     434 words ......Sunday of a failed trial of Vytorin. Millions of Americans...were stunned to learn that Vytorin failed to improve heart disease even though it worked as...watched because Zetia and Vytorin have racked up $5 billion...cholesterol as a way to prevent heart disease. Statins like ...

Article: Doctors have doubts on ; Vytorin, Zetia Panel says older statins have proven results
The Boston Globe;  March 31, 2008 ;     690 words ......should also be tried before Vytorin and Zetia, the panel said. Vytorin and Zetia are among the...Schering-Plough, which make Vytorin and Zetia, said yesterday...with the recommendations. Vytorin and Zetia have been proved...absorbing cholesterol in food. Vytorin is a single pill that ...

Article: Vytorin and Zetia fail in heart study
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  March 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ......failed trial of Vytorin and related drug...stunned to learn that Vytorin failed to improve heart disease even though it...because Zetia and Vytorin have racked up...way to prevent heart disease. Statins like Merck...other medicines. Vytorin, which came out...studies to ...

Article: DOCTORS LEERY OF VYTORIN AFTER KEY STUDY FLOPS.(FRONT)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  March 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ......failed trial of Vytorin. Millions of Americans...to learn that Vytorin failed to improve heart disease even though it...prescribe Zetia and Vytorin because they seem...because Zetia and Vytorin have racked up...way to prevent heart disease. Statins like...other ...

Article: Oklahoma ranks 5th in heart disease: A poll finds 7.5 percent had been diagnosed with related ailments.
Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK);  February 16, 2007 ;     368 words ......had the fifth-highest prevalence of heart disease in the nation, according to a study...specific heart problems. Eighty percent of heart disease is preventable. That means controlling...a heart attack, angina or coronary heart disease. The states with a higher prevalence...

Article: Heart disease remains deadliest
St. Joseph News-Press;  February 2, 2005 ;     477 words ......national basis, but in Missouri heart disease remains the state's deadliest disease...died of cancer; 450,637 died of heart disease. "That's misleading because Missouri is still No. 1 with heart disease," said Linda Powell of the Missouri...

Article: Studies show heart disease development in young women
University Wire;  March 15, 2005 ;     671 words ......Times) (U-WIRE) BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women over the...the American Heart Association, but heart disease begins to develop at a young age and...20 percent of women said they view heart disease as their greatest personal health problem...

Article: COOPERSTOWN RESEARCHERS GET GRANT TO STUDY HEART DISEASE IN BL ACKS.(Local)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 14, 1988 ;     666 words ......believed blacks had lower rates of heart disease than whites, even though blacks suffered...blacks have just as much if not more heart disease than whites. The research is especially...it has the highest rate of ischemic heart disease in the country, and Health Department...

Article: NSW: Fat rats provide insight into diabetes, heart disease link
AAP General News (Australia);  June 20, 2002 ;     326 words ......rats provide insight into diabetes, heart disease link By Judy Skatssoon, National...diabetics are likely to die from heart disease. There is an established link between diabetes and heart disease, with diabetics facing three times...