Irish Medical Times Similarly, in the area of statins, there will be prompts regarding simvastatin . The HSE is writing to GP system vendors “alerting them to this new integration opportunity”. GPs' integrated systems now highlight when an individual's medical card ... and more »
Zocor Lawsuit News However, new research shows that simvastatin -containing medications such as Zocor may decrease the overall benefits of exercise, leaving patients with an impaired ability to improve both muscle mass and cardiorespiratory fitness levels despite weekly ...
Diabetes In Control Carter and colleagues summarized their results by stating, "We found that patients treated with atorvastatin , rosuvastatin, or simvastatin were at increased risk of new onset diabetes compared with those treated with pravastatin. No such risk was ... and more »
Wall Street Journal In clinical studies of patients with elevated LDL-C, Welchol lowered LDL-C when used alone or when added to other cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins (lovastatin, simvastatin, and atorvastatin ). In these studies the most common adverse ...
CBC.ca Statins such as atorvastatin (Lipitor), rosuvastatin (Crestor) and simvastatin (Zocor) are among the widely used prescription drugs. Since the drugs were first marketed 30 years ago in the U.S. for preventing a second heart attack or stroke in those ...
Irish Times The first group which has been completed covers variants of the cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin , including the original branded drug Lipitor, which ...
A Sweet Life (blog) So after I completed the Milano marathon, I went back on simvastatin . Since then my running has been off, I've felt sluggish and have had soreness in my muscles. At first I assumed I was just getting over the marathon, then I thought it had something ...
