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How Does Crestor Work?
Does taking medications like Lipitor, Crestor, or Zocor mean that people whose high cholesterol is controlled by these drugs can eat anything they want? Pharmacists Joe and Teresa Graedon answer this common question in an editorial from The People's Pharmacy.
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The JUPITER Study: Should everybody take Crestor?
The JUPITER study has been the subject of countless headlines reporting the unprecedented reduction in heart attacks with the cholesterol... Read more »
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Vytorin beats Crestor at reducing bad cholesterol
According to new research, the combination drug Vytorin is more effective at lowering bad cholesterol than Crestor. Vytorin works on two sources of... Read more »
Crestor may be more beneficial than other statins for black pa...
Scientists plan more studies to find how well certain drugs work for different ethnic groups. Crestor, for example, has been found to be more... Read more »
Crestor+Zetia better than Crestor alone for high-risk patients...
A recent study has shown that a combination of Crestor and Zetia (ezetimibe) helps high-risk patients lower their cholesterol levels better than... Read more »
Study: Crestor cuts stroke risk nearly in half
According to a new study, the cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor cuts the risk of stroke nearly in half in seemingly healthy people. In a trial that... Read more »
FDA Approves Crestor for Wider Use
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved AstraZeneca's cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor (rosuvastatin) for older adults who have healthy... Read more »
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