...said he was rescued by fishermen. "It was too fast... and the ship crew did not tell us about the situation at all," he told Indonesia 's Antara news agency. Another survivor called Kristin described a scene of panic. "I saw children...

In this article: Indonesia, Jakarta, Antara, Local TV, Dumai, Borneo, Batam, Java, and Sumatra

...only gave his name as Riki , said he escaped from the ship by breaking a window and was rescued by fishermen, the official news agency Antara reported. "It was too fast ... and the ship crew did not tell us about the situation at all," he...

In this article: Sumatra, Batam, Antara, Indonesia, Dumai, and Jakarta

...2009, 12:27 PM Cholesterol pills Vytorin from Whitehouse Station -based Merck & Co. and Lipitor from Pfizer Inc. worked no better than simvastatin , a cheaper generic medicine, at keeping patients out of the hospital for heart attacks or...

In this article: Vytorin, Lipitor, Simvastatin, Cholesterol, Niaspan, Abbott Laboratories, UnitedHealth Group Inc., Pfizer Inc., and Merck & Co.

...these trials were too small to determine whether or not Zetia stops heart attacks. Zetia and Vytorin work by a different mechanism than statin drugs like Lipitor from Pfizer ( PFE - news - people ) or Crestor from AstraZeneca ( AZN - news -...

In this article: Zetia, Merck, Vytorin, Cholesterol, Niacin, Steven Nissen, Abbott Laboratories, and AstraZeneca

...found the results were the same whether the patients took any of the three leading statin drugs: Lipitor (atorvastatin ), Zocor (simvastatin ) or Crestor (rosuvastatin ). Patients on the dual niacin / statin therapy had an average 5.4 cubic...

In this article: Statin, Niacin, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Simvastatin, Rosuvastatin, Atorvastatin, Cholesterol, B vitamin, and Coronary artery disease

...and death "has yet to be determined." Last year, a study called Enhance showed Vytorin , made of ezetimibe (Zetia ) and simvastatin (a statin ), did no better job of treating clogged arteries than simvastatin alone. A second study, called...

In this article: Ezetimibe, Niacin, Vytorin, Cholesterol, Abbott Laboratories, New England Journal of Medicine, and Statin

Taken as a whole, the new research is unnerving, said Harlan Krumholz , a Yale University cardiologist. Statins , such as Lipitor , have been used to lower cholesterol by inhibiting the production of LDL, low-density lipoprotein often...

In this article: Zetia, Cholesterol, Vytorin, Merck, Niacin, Low-density lipoprotein, Statin, Stroke, and Lipitor

...Commission documents show. Vytorin and Zetia should be used for patients who can't adequately reduce their cholesterol with statins and niacin , says Roger Blumenthal , director of preventive cardiology at Johns Hopkins Cardiovascular...

In this article: Ezetimibe, Niacin, Vytorin, Cholesterol, Simvastatin, Abbott Laboratories, Kaiser Permanente, and Securities and Exchange Commission

...experts said. And patients should not stop taking any heart medicine without checking with their doctors. Statins such as Lipitor and Crestor have long been used to lower LDL, or bad cholesterol , and are known to cut the risk of heart...

In this article: Zetia, Cholesterol, Vytorin, Statin, Niacin, Abbott Laboratories, B vitamin, Crestor, and Lipitor

...who argued that the study was too small and too short. "These early results offer no conclusive evidence that niacin along with a statin will actually lower the number of deaths and incidents of heart attack from coronary artery...

In this article: Vytorin, Niacin, Cholesterol, Simvastatin, Zetia, Low-density lipoprotein, Flushing, Statin, and Merck & Co.

...to myalgia. 60mg a day is a sensible dose. If that doesn't help, talk to your doctor about changing to another statin. Simvastatin and atorvastatin (lipophilic) are thought to pass into muscle more easily than pravastatin and rosuvastatin...

In this article: Statin, Simvastatin, Myalgia, Rosuvastatin, Pravastatin, Atorvastatin, Coenzyme, Cholesterol, and Mark Porter

In this article: Ezetimibe, Niacin, Vytorin, Cholesterol, Simvastatin, Abbott Laboratories, Kaiser Permanente, and Securities and Exchange Commission

...all had a genetic disease that causes high cholesterol and had been treated for years with high doses of statin drugs like Zocor , Lipitor or Crestor. The intense treatment made it difficult for a new drug to show a difference, Merck 's argument...

In this article: Zetia, Merck, Niacin, Vytorin, Cholesterol, Abbott Laboratories, Schering-Plough, Statin, and Zocor

...don't work, your doctor will talk with you about taking a medication like nicotinic acid ( Niacin ), fibrates like Gemfibrozil (Lopid) and Fenofibrate (Tricor ), and also fish oil capsules, also called omega-3-fatty acids or Omacor (a...

In this article: Triglyceride, Sugar, Juice, Fenofibrate, Ice cream, Niacin, Gemfibrozil, and Cholesterol

...time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the blockbuster cholesterol -lowering drug lovastatin. The research, published Oct. 23 in the journal Science, could potentially lead to the...

In this article: Lovastatin, Cholesterol, Antibiotic, Polyketide, UCLA, Medical advice, Erythromycin, Doxorubicin, and Tetracycline

...treatment," says Meredith VanderMeer , MPH, of the Oregon Public Health Division. The statin drugs include Crestor , Lescol , Lipitor , Mevacor , Pravachol , and Zocor. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious...

In this article: Influenza, Statin, Cholesterol, WebMD, Zocor, Crestor, Pravachol, Mevacor, and Lescol

Statin drugs include AstraZeneca 's <AZN.L> Crestor , known generically as rosuvastatin , Bristol-Myers Squibb <BMY.N> Pravachol or pravastatin and Merck 's <MRK.N> Mevacor , or lovastatin. (Editing by Julie Steenhuysen and Bill Trott )

In this article: Influenza, Statin, Rosuvastatin, Pravastatin, Lovastatin, Cholesterol, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca

...Chemistry, researchers looked at two compounds -- fibrates and phenoxy-herbicides -- to see if they had an effect on the receptors. Fibrate drugs treat disorders such as high cholesterol and triglycerides. Phenoxy-herbicides, including...

In this article: Herbicide, Fibrate, Cholesterol, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Obesity, Metabolic syndrome, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, and Philadelphia