Category: PharmaBoxOffice

JGrimes
Sales reps have been pounding doctors’ doors on behalf of Merck and Schering-Plough’s beleaguered cholesterol drug Vytorin, but their pleas aren’t getting them very far.
It’s been two months since the results of the controversial Enhance trial suggested Vytorin was no better than a cheap generic at slowing the progression of cardiovascular disease. The […]

JGrimes
Two sleep aids were among the seven drugs in Heath Ledger’s system when he died at age 28: temazepam, sold as Restoril; and doxylamine, an ingredient in over-the-counter sleeping medicines.
No single drug was identified as the cause of his death, and Ledger’s drug use clearly went far beyond that of most 20somethings. […]