Victoria Times Colonist "But for most of the patients you could probably get away with using something like pravastatin or even lovastatin .... I'd say for the vast majority of patients, those would be just fine." Pravastatin, which is sold as Pravachol or Selektine, has ...
Pulse The potency of statins - in increasing order is fluvastatin, lovastatin , pravastatin, simvastatin, atorvastatin and rosuvastatin. The researchers found no differ...
Chicago Tribune However, among those nutrients are furanocoumarins, which can raise the level of certain medications in the blood, including atorvastatin . Furanocoumarins block an enzyme called CYP3A4 in the intestine. This enzyme metabolizes many different drugs. and more »
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) Tell your doctor about all other medications you use, especially: cholesterol-lowering medicines such as atorvastatin (Lipitor), fenofibrate (Antara, Lipofen, TriCor), digoxin (Lanoxin, digitalis);gemfibrozil (Lopid), simvastatin (Zocor), lovastatin ...
Baystreet.ca (NYSE: MRK) began immediately searching in the same class and found lovastatin , another statin that proved to be very effective in lower LDL cholesterol levels, and eventually developed Mevacor® that became the first U.S. statin. Warner-Lambert soon ...
MarketWatch (press release) After Dr. Endo discovered mevastatin, word of the breakthrough quickly spread throughout the medical community. Merck & Co. (NYSE:MRK) began immediately searching in the same class and found lovastatin , another statin that proved to be very effective ... and more »
SECFilings.com Warner-Lambert soon discovered its own statin – atorvastatin – that proved more effective than Mevacor® in lowering LDL cholesterol. But with Mevacor® already in its final rounds of clinical trials at the time, the company needed to move quickly and ... and more »
