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How Does The Drug 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 »
The Dos and Don'ts of Taking Prescription Cholesterol Medication
What is the best way to take my pills? This question is at the root of more confusion than any other question in medicine. The public... Read more »
From Our Sources
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 »
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 »
Lipitor, Crestor makers join three other drug companies in swa...
The Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) Project, a national health and consumer advocacy group, slammed the makers of Lipitor, Crestor, and three... 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 »
FDA Panel Approves Wider Use of Crestor
A panel that advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that the cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor be prescribed to patients... Read more »
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