Healio When individual statins were compared in network meta-analyses, simvastatin (OR=0.75; 95% CrI, 0.59-0.95) and pravastatin (OR=0.68; 95% CrI, 0.52-0.91) were assoc...
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Health.com In the analysis of 135 previous studies, which included nearly 250,000 people combined, researchers found that the drugs simvastatin (Zocor) and pravastatin (Pravachol) had the fewest side effects in this class of medications. They also found that ...
Seeking Alpha In 2008 and 2009, GSK initiated two immense trials, the STABILITY and SOLID-TIMI 52 studies, enrolling more than 15,000 and 13,000 patients respectively, to evaluate the drug's clinical benefit on this patient population. You might expect impressive ...
Philly.com (blog) It takes different forms in the various global regions, but the common element is that most countries are unwilling to bear as high a per capita cost for drugs and other health care products as the US. Within the past week, for example, China's ...
Drug Store News Neas said that the settlement between Pfizer and Ranbaxy Labs over Lipitor ( atorvastatin calcium) would save $22 billion during the next four years. Ranbaxy launched its generic version of Lipitor in November 2011, and numerous versions of the drug ...
Healio Atorvastatin was the most commonly prescribed statin (73%), followed by simvastatin and lovastatin. The FDA has cautioned about a potential drug-drug interaction between statins and medications used to treat HIV and hepatitis. The FDA also has warned ...
