If you take Lipitor to hold down your cholesterol, don’t worry. Not so with another drug said to do the same thing. The Food and Drug Administration is keeping an eye on Vytorin. It turns out Vytorin may not keep cholesterol down. Worse, it could cause cancer. So far, the FDA says, no evidence definitively links Vytorin to the dreaded disease. But the federal agency is continuing to study research on the matter. The FDA also is asking doctors who prescribe Vytorin to monitor closely patients who use it, in case they experience unhealthy side effects. Vytorin is produced by the same pharmaceutical giant, Merck and Co., which made the discredited painkiller Vioxx.
September 5, 2008
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