Pravachol

• “BEHAR: So he put me on Pravachol, which is a statin.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2002

• “Dr. John Abramson cites an article that he read in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that was titled "Pravastatin Therapy and Risk of Stroke," which examined how a drug commonly known as Pravachol supposedly reduced risk of stroke in patients by a whopping 19\% (14).”

  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz

• “The studies offer strong evidence that inflammation is a major factor in the progression of heart disease and may make statins -- including best-selling cholesterol drugs such as Pravachol, Zocor and Lipitor -- even more popular.”

  Newsweek: Science and Your Health

• “So he put me on Pravachol which is a statin and my numbers went down like 100 points in two months.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2002

• “The company manufactures and sells branded pharmaceutical drugs such as Pravachol for cholesterol reduction, Plavix for hypertension and Erbitux for cancer.”

  Bristol-Myers Outlook Mixed - Yahoo! Finance

• “Five people have heart attacks despite taking Pravachol.”

  Presenting Health Statistics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “The exception is pravastatin (Pravachol), which is not affected by St. John's wort.”

  The Huffington Post: Leo Galland, M.D.: Mixing Medications and Vitamins: When It Hurts, When It Helps

• “Crestor was approved on the basis of trials in more than 10,000 patients showing that it dramatically reduced bad cholesterol more than Lipitor, Zocor and Pravachol.”

  Drug trials under pressure

• “For instance, we now have six statins Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Lescol, and the newest, Crestor on the market to lower cholesterol, all variants of the first.”

  But What About Drugs? « Gerry Canavan

• “The makers of Pravachol said they're counting on it.”

  Meredith C. Carroll: Hot and Battered over KFC

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