Atorvastatin News
New "promising" drug scrapped
Good Drug Combination. Researchers found that among hypertensive (high blood pressure) patients, the combination of the anti-hypertensive drug Norvasc and cholesterol lowering pill Atorvastatin (Lipitor) "significantly reduced...
Be very careful when buying drugs online
Q: We buy prescription medications over the Internet and have heard that some online sources could be selling counterfeit drugs. Should we be concerned?
Gene Polymorphism Tied to Statin Effectiveness: Study
Research suggests that patients with acute coronary syndrome who carry the 719Arg allele of the kinesin-like protein 6 (KIF6) gene derive significantly greater benefit from intensive statin therapy than noncarriers, independent...
Celera Publishes Three Papers Linking a Heart Disease Variant and Statin Treatment
Celera says that it will publish three papers in the January 29 edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology detailing how a variant of the gene encoding kinesin-like protein 6 (KIF6) is associated with up to a...
Pacific Biometrics' Chief Scientific Officer, Elizabeth Leary, PhD, Has Co-Authored the BONES Study Recently Published in the December 2007 Issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Elizabeth Leary, PhD, the Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Pacific Biometrics, Inc. (OTCBB: PBME) ("PBI"), has recently been published in the December 2007 issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism....