01-15-2008, 02:17 PM
. .. whatsoever. . .another drug 'issue'. . .
Cholesterol Drug Zetia Doesn't Benefit Health, Trial Shows
. . .The long-awaited results of a trial of Zetia, a cholesterol-lowering drug prescribed to about a million Americans, shows the drug confers no medical benefit to users.
In fact, the pace at which artery-clogging plaques formed within vessels almost doubled in patients taking Zetia (ezetimibe) along with another cholesterol-lowering drug, Zocor (simvastatin), compared to those taking Zocor alone, the study found. . .
MISSING LINK to the full story of yet another drug that doesn't do what is is supposed to do. . .
Cholesterol Drug Zetia Doesn't Benefit Health, Trial Shows
. . .The long-awaited results of a trial of Zetia, a cholesterol-lowering drug prescribed to about a million Americans, shows the drug confers no medical benefit to users.
In fact, the pace at which artery-clogging plaques formed within vessels almost doubled in patients taking Zetia (ezetimibe) along with another cholesterol-lowering drug, Zocor (simvastatin), compared to those taking Zocor alone, the study found. . .
MISSING LINK to the full story of yet another drug that doesn't do what is is supposed to do. . .