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Lipitor studies withdrawn because of flaws

Researchers have withdrawn three substudies of the anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor, after Pfizer – the company that both manufactures the drug and sponsored the clinical trial – discovered an error.

A story in Forbes says blood samples from the study had been matched to the wrong participants. According to story, the study results had been published in the New England Journal of medicine in 2005. They had a major impact on clinical ...

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Dr. Oz guests discuss cholesterol drugs

Surgeon and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz brought Dr. Stephen Sinatra and nutrition guru Johnny Bowden on his show to raise awareness of the risks connected with the popular cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, according to a story on the Examiner.com.

Sinatra and Bowden warn that taking statins can result in dangerous side-effects, such as memory loss, fatigue and muscle pain.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added warnings to the labels ...

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Study: Risks from cholesterol drugs higher than thought

A recent study indicates that the number of people suffering side effects after taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins is higher than previously reported, according to NPR.

Researchers who conducted the study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at more than 100,000 people who’d been prescribed statins from 2000 through 2008 at two academic medical centers. They found that 17 percent of patients taking the pills reported side effects, ...

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Researchers say statins are over-prescribed

Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have published the results of a survey that concluded many doctors are too quick to prescribe the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins.

A Reuters story on the findings quotes Dr. Franz Messerli, who runs the hypertension program at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, as saying: “Many physicians are trigger happy, and do just prescribe a statin, which obviously is not ...

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Drug-maker to resume atorvastatin sales in U.S. after recall

The Indian company Ranbaxy will resume production of its generic version of the anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor in the United States, according to a Reuters story.

The company had recalled the drug, called atorvastatin, in November after particles of glass were found in certain lots.

The original Lipitor, manufactured by Pfizer Inc., has also been the source of some safety concerns.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added warnings to the labels of ...

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Study says statins increase risk of kidney failure

A new study by Canadian researchers found that strong doses of the anti-cholesterol drugs called statins put patients at risk of potentially deadly kidney problems, The Daily Telegraph reports.

The researchers, from the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in Quebec, said that taking high doses of atorvastatin — better known by its brand name Lipitor — simvastatin or rosuvastatin increases the risk of being hospitalized with a condition called acute ...

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