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Use the cholesterol lowering drug  Vytorin with caution.
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The review finds more Vytorin patients died from cancer when compared to patients taking placebos, but that the rate of cancer weren’t higher. Merck and Schering-Plough are defending their drugs Vytorin and Zetia (ezetimibe). The companies jointly make both and say there is no cancer risk in animal trials.
Schering-Plough and Merck & Co may see sales of Vytorin further erode after a link to cancer deaths in a three-stu...
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