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Data illustrates methods for improving adherence to medication, lowering prescription drug costs

Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by Lower LDL Cholesterol.

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Preventive-care study finds obese aren’t left out
Obese and overweight patients are as likely to get recommended preventive medical care as normal-weight patients, a new study shows.
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Data illustrates methods for improving adherence to medication, lowering prescription drug costs
CVS Caremark presented data at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managed Care [...]

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Cholesterol Drug Safe for Healthy People?

Posted on 04. Apr, 2010 by Lower LDL Cholesterol.

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Cholesterol Drug Safe for Healthy People?
NYT: Medical Experts Concerned FDA’s Approval of Crestor as Preventative Treatment for Heart Disease May Belie Risks
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Cholesterol Drug Safe for Healthy People?
NYT: Medical Experts Concerned FDA’s Approval of Crestor as Preventative Treatment for Heart Disease May Belie Risks
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Pfizer’s Drug Lipitor

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Lower LDL Cholesterol.

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Pfizer on the cholesterol-fighting drug, Lipitor, which is also among the world s highest selling drug.

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Scott Mendelson, M.D.: New Diabetes Drug May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Lower LDL Cholesterol.

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Scott Mendelson, M.D.: New Diabetes Drug May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
Novo Nordisk, announced that their drug, liraglutide, which will carry the trade name Victoza, has been approved by the FDA for use in the United States for the treatment of Diabetes Type II.
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Lipitor (Atorvastatin): Know Your Drug

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Lower LDL Cholesterol.

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In this week’s episode of Know Your Drug, Brothers Bryan Kudlawiec and Greg Hare discuss hyperlipidemia, also known as high cholesterol. They highlight some of the important points of this disease state and risks involved with it. Discussion on how Lipitor works to help improve cholesterol levels and other important information such as side effects, [...]

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Philippines Seeks Second Round of 50 Percent Drug Price Cuts

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by Lower LDL Cholesterol.

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Philippines Seeks Second Round of 50 Percent Drug Price Cuts
Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) — The Philippines is seeking price cuts on more medicines, asking drugmakers including Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc to halve prices of some top-selling products for the second time in five months.
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Cholesterol-lowering drug shows promise against serious infections in sickle cell disease

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Lower LDL Cholesterol.

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Cholesterol-lowering drug shows promise against serious infections in sickle cell disease
( St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ) New research suggests a family of widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs might help protect individuals from serious illness following bacterial infection, including the pneumococcal infections that pose a deadly threat to those with sickle cell disease.
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Draw Attention Towards Mucoadhesive Buccal Drug Delivery System

Posted on 17. Jan, 2010 by Lower LDL Cholesterol.

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1. Introduction

Considerable attention has been focused in recent years on the delivery through the oral mucosa of drugs which have a high first pass metabolism (i.e., metabolized to a large extent by the liver during the first pass there through and therefore do not enter the blood stream) or degrade in the gastrointestinal tract. Transmucosal [...]

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