Shut Up, They Explained (to Ezetimibe Critics)

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 08/01/2008 - 13:33

One of our scouts alerted me to a remarkable editorial just published by Harrison, Brown and Raggi on the ezetimibe controversy [Harrison DG, Brown WV, Raggi P.

Enhanced hype. Am J Cardiol 2008; 102: 368-369. Link here , requires subscription.]

We have posted before (as have many others,) about problems with the ENHANCE trial of ezetimibe (Zetia , by Schering-Plough , and one component of Vytorin , by Merck ), and how...

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