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    Study: Mevacor may fight cancer

    October 03, 2008
    The cholesterol-lowering drug Mevacor may help people who suffer from cancer achieve remission, researchers say. Early studies showed that Mevacor killed or impaired cancer cells in lab tests, but it required doses too high for humans to tolerate in order to be used as a cancer treatment. Now researchers say that when cancer patients are given a precisely timed regimen of low-dose interferon with Mevacor, their tumors shrink, sometimes within just a few weeks. Mevacor has been tested on patients... Read more »
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    Natural Treatment Options for Lowering Cholesterol
    By Glenn Gandelman, MD, MPH , Health Expert

    ...from a chemical in the rice called lovastatin (or Mevacor). Lovastatin is similar to other drugs... Read more »

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    Hypertriglyceridemia: Drug Treatment
    By Dr. Kang , Health Expert

    ...Statins such as lipitor, zocor, pravachol, crestor, and mevacor are some of the most popular... Read more »

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    Get the Most out of Your Cholesterol Medication
    By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

    ...(Pravachol) from 40 mg to 5 to 10 mg, or lovastatin (Mevacor) from 20mg to 10 mg. In the same... Read more »

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    Red Yeast Rice: A Safe Therapy to Lower Cholesterol?
    By Dr. Kang , Health Expert

    ...compound as a commercially produced statin called Mevacor or lovastatin. Red yeast rice... Read more »

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    Cholesterol-Lowering Medications Cause Pain
    By Christina Lasich, MD , Health Expert

    ...causes pain.   Crestor, Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Mevacor; this group of drugs are generally... Read more »

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    Neuropathy secondary to drugs
    ...Zalcitabine (Hivid) Ritonavir (Norvir) Amprenavir (Agenerase) Drugs to lower cholesterol Lovastatin (Mevacor) Indapamid (Lozol) Gemfibrozil (Lopid) Arsenic Read more »
    Lowering Cholesterol for Patients
    ...cases. Currently available statins include atorvastatin (Lipitor), fluvastatin (Lescol), lovastatin (Mevacor), pravastatin (Pravachol), rosuvastatin (Crestor) and simvastatin (Zocor). The... Read more »
    Peripheral Artery Disease and Intermittent Claudication: Reducing Heart Risk Factors
    ...also raise HDL levels, but not as much as other anti-cholesterol drugs.Statins include:Lovastatin (Mevacor)Pravastatin (Pravachol)Simvastatin (Zocor)Fluvastatin (Lescol)Atorvastatin... Read more »
    Gallstones and Gallbladder Disease: Prevention
    ...gallstones. These are the most effective drugs for treating high cholesterol and include lovastatin (Mevacor), pravastatin (Pravachol), simvastatin (Zocor), fluvastatin (Lescol), atorvastatin... Read more »
    Heart Attack and Acute Coronary Syndrome: Medications
    ...Report #23: Cholesterol.]Statins are among the most important of these drugs. Brands include lovastatin (Mevacor), pravastatin (Pravachol), simvastatin (Zocor), fluvastatin (Lescol), atorvastatin... Read more »

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    In this Q&A, pharmacist Richard Harkness responds to a reader who is experiencing muscle pain while taking the antibiotic Biaxin XL and the statin... Read summary »

    FDA panel rejects non-prescription statin
    October 03, 2008

    For the third time in seven years, advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have voted to deny drugmaker Merck's request to make the... Read summary »

    Statin, experimental drug combo may treat brain cancer
    October 02, 2008

    Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found a way to destroy cancer cells by using a combination of the cholesterol-lowering drug Mevacor and... Read summary »

    Zocor may treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
    October 03, 2008

    A new study from Boston University has found that the statin Zocor may reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease by up to... Read summary »

    Red yeast rice may help those who can't take statins
    June 16, 2009

    In a new study, Pennsylvania researchers found that a commercially available red yeast rice product significantly decreased the cholesterol in 62... Read summary »

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