Vytorin Articles

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Vytorin Fraud Places all Statin Therapy in Question

Excessively lowering cholesterol has been the mantra of Big Pharma gone wild. Congressional investigation into a fraudulent cover-up of Vytorin study results led Merck and Schering-Plough to reveal what everyone had been suspecting, the main ingredient in their 5-billion-a-year scam failed miserably to do anything useful.

Read More: diet, Exercise, heart disease, LDL cholesterol, statins, Vytorin

Vytoringate Builds Steam – Folic Acid Ignored

The Wall Street Journal now calls it Vytoringate – one of the biggest drug frauds in history. Merck and Schering-Plough sat on bad drug trial results of their cholesterol drug and raked in close to 10 billion dollars selling snake oil...Meanwhile, nobody seems to be mentioning that folic acid has already been proven to do what Vytorin was supposed to be doing.

Read More: FDA, Folic Acid, heart disease, statins, Vytorin

Vytorin Increases Cancer Risk by 64%

Researchers were shocked to see that Vytorin increased the rate of cancer by 61%.

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Vytorin Cancer Link Opens Can of Worms

In an unprecedented change of posture the New England Journal of Medicine has reversed itself on the issue of whether Vytorin causes cancer. In the initial release of data back in July NEJM stood by Merck and Schering-Plough, who hired an Oxford consultant to rule that a 50% statistically significant increased risk of cancer was by chance. I pointed out in an earlier posting that such statistical manipulation, based primarily on the opinion of the Oxford reviewer, was ridiculous. NEJM has had a sudden change of heart and now agrees with me.

Read More: cancer, LDL cholesterol, Vytorin