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Another Vytorin Mess For Merck

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Published at: www.forbes.com

Zetia Now Off Best Practices List for MI Prevention, But is Niaspan > Diet?

November 15, 2009

GLG Expert Contributor

Abbott Laboratories' (ABT.N) Niaspan, though inexpensive and older, lowered HDL and shrunk artery diameter in heart patients more effectively and safely than Merck & Co's (MRK.N) moderately expensive Zetia.Though there is little reason for doctors to prescribe Zetia now, there are real cautions about Niaspan that many people with liver concerns will appreciate.  And so will their physicians.An alternative and winning intervention, essentially unexplored by Pharma, is diet.

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