Pravachol

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Pravachol - an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks

pravastatin

lipid-lowering medication, lipid-lowering medicine, statin, statin drug - a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase

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Rats given daily doses of pravastatin - sold as Pravachol - had to recognise a previously seen object and find a food reward.

Memory loss 'triggered by some statins'

He said in other prevention studies, the five-year NNT values for people with high cholesterol ranged from 44, for those taking the statin drug pravastatin or Pravachol, made by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Study finds even more may benefit from Statins

The statin drugs Lescol (fluvastatin) Pravachol (pravastatin), and Crestor (rosuvastatin) are unaffected by amiodarone.

Statin safety

The plant, operating for 36 years, produces Pravachol for heart disease and Glucophage for diabetes.

Bristol-Myers Squibb plant to close

In addition, if combined with Sustiva, the following drugs may require a change in the dose of either Sustiva or the other medicine: Ritadin (ritampin); Sporanox (itraconazole); Nizoral (ketoconazole); calcium-channel blockers (for example, Cardizem, Tiazac, and others); and the cholesterol-lowering medications Lipitor (atorvastatin), Pravachol (pravastatin), and Zocor (simvastatin).

Sustiva drug interactions

The makers of a cholesterol-lowering statin drug called Pravachol claimed that it reduced strokes in patients by 19 percent.

Manipulating medical study data: studies on new drugs and medical devices are being manipulated by their manufacturers through the use of flawed studies, in-pocket experts, and pressure on the FDA

Statins like Lipitor and Pravachol lower both LDL ("bad") cholesterol and CRP, a measure of inflammation.

Inflammation & the heart

For all other statins (including Lipitor, Zocor, Lescol, Pravachol and Mevacor), there have been 27 cases of acute renal failure or renal insufficiency reported from January 1, 2001, through September 30, 2004, out of 316 million prescriptions filled-a rate of .

Crestor cited as potentially unsafe drug because of link to kidney failure; AstraZeneca denies charge

For example, Pravachol was the preferred statin on Michigan's list until the Medicaid program switched to Lipitor, Dr.

Many make switch to Rx on preferred lists; Medicaid programs use preferred drug list to contain drug costs

The Food and Drug Administration's new commissioner highlighted the order to Pravachol maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

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There is also evidence for the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins (Lipitor, Lescol, Mevacor, Pravachol and Zocor) that, when started in middle to later middle-age years, they reduce the risk of dementia, type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis.

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Moody's said sales of Sankyo's cholesterol reducer, Mevalotin, sold as Pravachol in the United States, are likely to decline due to price-cutting and stronger competition from new drugs.