http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/business/15drug.html

A clinical trial of a widely used cholesterol drug (Zetia, which is in Vytorin) has raised questions both about the medicine’s effectiveness and about the behavior of the pharmaceutical companies that conducted the study, cardiologists said Monday.

As if that wasn’t bad enough:

In a press release, Merck and Schering said that not only did Zetia fail to slow the accumulation of fatty plaque in the arteries, it actually seemed to contribute to plaque formation — although by such a small amount that the finding could have been a result of chance.

It amazes me how all of the ‘alternative’ products that are out there to improve your health, many of which are effective, are not able to get any kind of official FDA approval. However, the huge drug companies can push out garbage like Vytorin and millions of people trust the drug companies and the FDA and take it and just get sicker.
I wonder if the FDA will ever wake up and start reviewing products that can actually improve people’s health instead of doing whatever the drug companies say only to find problems with the drugs after they have harmed people.
Oh, by the way, it gets better

the companies had deliberately sat on their findings from the study

Is this big tobacco all over again?

Post Originally From: Weight Loss Message / Isagenix Blog
Gabby is an Independent Isagenix Associate

FDA Cholesterol Drug Ineffective? Maybe eating better is a good idea after all.