Archive for November 14th, 2008

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Vytorin and Zetia fail in heart study

Friday, November 14th, 2008

CHICAGO — Leading doctors urged a return to older, tried-and- true treatments for high cholesterol after hearing full results Sunday of a failed trial of Vytorin and related drug Zetia.
Millions of Americans already take the drug or one of its components, Zetia. But doctors were stunned to learn that Vytorin failed to improve heart disease even though it worked as in…