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Statin update
Panel's ties to drugmakers not cited in new cholesterol guidelines
BY DELTHIA RICKS AND RONI RABIN
July 15, 2004
Guidelines published by a government panel earlier this week, calling for
aggressive use of statin medications to lower cholesterol in people at high
risk of heart attacks, failed to list panelists' links to pharmaceutical
companies, many of which manufacture statin drugs.
Of the nine panelists, six had received grants or consulting or speakers'
fees from companies that produce some of the most popular statin medications
on the market, according to published material from 2001. Those drugs
include Pfizer's Lipitor; Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pravachol, Merck's
Lovastatin and AstraZeneca's Crestor. ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hschol0715,0,847235.story?coll=ny-health-headlines>
Carl
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- Thread context:
- Re: Hawking black hole, (continued)
- Galbraith,
Dan Scanlan Thu 15 Jul 2004, 16:56 GMT
- Statin update,
Carl Remick Thu 15 Jul 2004, 15:58 GMT
- ditka,
Michael Perelman Thu 15 Jul 2004, 04:40 GMT
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: ditka,
Michael Hoover Thu 15 Jul 2004, 13:35 GMT
- July 14, 1789/1958,
Yoshie Furuhashi Thu 15 Jul 2004, 03:43 GMT
- Greens for Nader!,
Yoshie Furuhashi Thu 15 Jul 2004, 02:59 GMT
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