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• Most took the drug Lovastatin, also known as Mevacor.
• Statin drugs include Pravachol, Lipitor, Zocor, Mevacor and Lescol.
• Development of Mevacor itself began in the early 1970s.
• Statins are sold under such brand names as Lipitor, Zocor and Mevacor.
• Other brand-name statins include Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol and Mevacor.
• Mevacor, an older Merck cholesterol therapy slid 4 percent to $ 360 million.
• Other brands include Sandoz's Leschol and Merck's Zocor and Mevacor.
• In 1995, Zocor and Mevacor both made Merck over US $ 1 billion.
• Merck makes a statin called Mevacor.
• Warner-Lambert realized they would need a statin drug well before Mevacor's launch.
• Advisory panels rejected both Prilosec and Mevacor for different reasons in separate hearings two years ago.
• Mevacor is marketed by Merck and Co . Inc ., which helped fund the study.
• The studies were designed to test how well Mevacor and other statins ward off heart attacks.
• Five brands are available : Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Lescol, Mevacor and Baycol.
• Mevacor worked better on LDL cholesterol, which had just been shown to be the most dangerous.
• Just toss a box of Mevacor or Pravachol into the shopping cart and you're off.
• There are four other statins being given to patients _ Lipitor, Zocor, Mevacor and Lescol.
• The first, Mevacor by Merck, became available in 1987, followed by Pravachol, in 1991.
• They found that Mevacor reduced these growths by 12 percent, while sulindac reduced them by 15 percent.
• Millions of Americans take such drugs, sold under such brand names as Lipitor, Zocor and Mevacor.