Zocor Side Effects - Rhabdomyolysis Lawsuit News Archive

 

FDA adds diabetes, memory loss warnings to statins
- Reuters
03/27/2012 - U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Zocor, to indicate that they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss.
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Diabetes tied to cholesterol-lowering drugs
- NECN
03/14/2012 - A San Diego researcher is calling attention to Americans' use of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Dr. Eric Topol, Chief Academic Officer for Scripps Health, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times Opinion Page addressing the risk of cholesterol-reducing "statins" such as Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor.
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FDA strengthens safety warnings for Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor
- PMLiVE
03/01/2012 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated the labels of several statins to reflect an increased risk of diabetes and memory loss. The affected cholesterol-lowering medications include Pfizer’s Lipitor (atorvastatin), AstraZeneca’s Crestor (rosuvastatin) and Merck & Co’s Zocor (simvastatin).
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Zocor Side Effects Pose Risk Of Diabetes, Myopathy, and Rhabdomyolysis
- Ennislaw
06/22/2011 - According to the findings of a new study, high-dose useof Zoco'r as well as other similar cholesterol drugs, may increase the risk of developing diabetes. Zocor is a synthetic statin developed by Merck & Co., which is also widely available as generic simvastatin.
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High-dose simvastatin linked with myopathy, Merck says
- American Pharmacist Association
06/18/2011 - Merck has announced that the prescribing information for Zocor (simvastatin) and Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin) has changed to reflect recent findings of an increased risk of myopathy, including rhabdomyolysis.
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FDA Recommends Limits To High-Dose Zocor
- ABC News Health
06/16/2011 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended limiting high doses of a widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drug called simvastatin -- commonly known as Zocor -- after reviewing the results of a clinical trial that found a higher risk of muscle damage compared to patients taking lower doses of the statin.
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Zocor warning probably shouldn't come as a surprise
- LA Times
06/16/2011 - When the FDA announced that the popular cholesterol drug simvastatin, brand name Zocor, would need a new label warning, it simply reinforced something that many doctors already knew: The highest “recommended” dose of 80 milligrams a day is so dangerous that it probably shouldn’t be recommended at all.
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