The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today is announcing safety label changes for the cholesterol-lowering medication simvastatin because the highest approved dose--80 milligram (mg)--has been ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who received simvastatin plus rifaximin experienced similar rates of complications as those treated ...

Patients with intermediate and mild Parkinson disease, defined by a Hoehn & Yahr stage of 3 or less, experienced an additional deterioration in motor function with simvastatin compared with placebo ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate, in a prospectively planned, placebo-controlled, double-blind randomized clinical trial, the effect of 40 mg of simvastatin on BP measured by ABP monitoring in ...

Ezetimibe/simvastatin (Vytorin) was associated with an increased incidence of cancer, based on a secondary analysis of the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) randomized trial (N Engl ...

The European Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 13, No. 3 (June 2012), pp. 365-374 (10 pages) Coronary heart disease (CHD) remains the leading cause of death in Germany despite statin use to reduce low ...

Niacin extended-release 500 mg, simvastatin 20 mg; tabs. Simcor combines the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, simvastatin, and the nicotinic acid derivative, extended-release niacin (Niaspan, also from ...