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Big Pharma and Licensing Drug Sales Reps
Big Pharma – the worldwide multibillion-dollar drug industry – does us a huge service by curing our ills. Unfortunately, its... Read more »
Statins: good drugs for bad cholesterol
Statins (technically, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) are a very important class of prescription medications. The drugs in this class... Read more »
Is there life for CETP inhibitors after the death of torcetrapib?
In the beginning of this year, I wrote two articles concerning torcetrapib, the $800 million failure of Pfizer to develop a new type of... Read more »
The Demise of a New Cholesterol Drug
“Torcetrapib: the $800 million dollar failure”“Pfizer stock drops 10.6%!”“This spells the death of what is arguably the most... Read more »
Thyroid Disease and Cholesterol
I recently saw a young woman in my clinic that was referred for treatment of a severely abnormal lipid profile. Her total cholesterol was... Read more »
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New weight-loss drug may help people with high cholesterol
A new drug, Acomplia, has gone on sale in Great Britain, offering overweight patients their first weight-loss drug option since 1999. Acomplia has... Read more »
FDA Delays Decision on New Combo Cholesterol Drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked for more information from drugmakers AstraZeneca and Abbott Laboratories before it approves... Read more »
Cholesterol drugs linked to increased fatigue
People prescribed widely used cholesterol-busting drugs called statins may be more likely to feel fatigued than those who don't, a new study finds. Read more »
FDA approves Livalo to treat high cholesterol
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new statin called Livalo to treat high cholesterol. The drug is intended to treat high... Read more »
Marijuana-Based Multiple Sclerosis Drug Goes on Sale in the UK...
A new cannabis-based drug called Sativex has gone on sale in the United Kingdom as a treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). Sativex is approved to... Read more »
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