Vytorin Fraud Places all Statin Therapy in Question

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Vytorin Fraud Places all Statin Therapy in Question

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Byron s, CCN

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Excessively lowering cholesterol has been the mantra of Big Pharma gone wild.

Congressional investigation into a fraudulent cover-up of Vytorin study results

led Merck and Schering-Plough to reveal what everyone had been suspecting, the

main ingredient in their 5-billion-a-year scam failed miserably to do anything

useful. " This drug doesn't work. Period. It just doesn't work, " said

Nissen, head of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic. Merck and Schering-Plough

have raked in 10 billion in sales since knowing their drug was near worthless

and their promotion for its sale completely false. They should be forced to

refund all the money to patients.

Those on the drugs lowered their cholesterol by 40% more, but this had no

improvement to their health and was no better than far cheaper generic drugs.

This complete failure to produce positive results was in patients with serious

heart disease risk. Dr. Nissen points out, " If a group of patients with LDL

levels this high don't benefit from Vytorin who's going to benefit? " He also

advised that " physicians should now stop using [Zetia] or Vytorin as a primary

therapy for patients with high cholesterol. "

This latest fraud in the Big Pharma world, hitting the media at the same exact

time of the bone drug fraud, actually throws the entire notion of lowering

cholesterol to physiologically abnormal levels with drugs into question. Lower

cholesterol is good when it occurs naturally as a result of diet and exercise,

but not when it is accomplished by poisoning the body with statins. I explain

this fully in my article " The Statin Scam Marches On. "