And the patent for Zocor, the company's popular anti-cholesterol drug, is up in 2006.
A1 An anti-cholesterol drug reduces dramatically heart attacks in men with high levels of cholesterol in their blood, a study shows.
An anti-cholesterol drug reduces heart attacks in men with high cholesterol levels, a study has found.
There are, for example, many anti-cholesterol drugs, but a formulary may not include the drug that works best for a particular patient.
Crestor, the anti-cholesterol drug manufactured by AstraZeneca, was allowed to remain on the market.
But sales of Pravachol, an anti-cholesterol drug, grew 32 percent.
The company has just received approval to market lovastatin, an anti-cholesterol drug that some analysts believe will be a billion-dollar product.
While a few other anti-cholesterol drugs have been found to cut heart attacks, gemfibrozil appears to cause the fewest side effects.
Those treated with anti-cholesterol drugs were significantly less likely to show declines in cognitive abilities than those left untreated.
An article yesterday on an anti-cholesterol drug misstated the cost of another drug, lovastatin.
