The Food and Drug Administration is recommending that the use of drugs that contain 80 mg of simvastatin – the highest approved dose of the popular cholesterol – lowering statin – be sharply curtailed ...

March 19, 2010 — Simvastatin (Zocor, Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals), used at the highest approved dose of 80 mg, is associated with an increased risk for myopathy, including rhabdomyolysis, ...

Are you taking Simvastatin? Are you aware of the dangers of combining Simvastatin with certain foods, herbs, or alcohol? Drug-food-interactions are seldom discussed but can lead to undesirable side ...

Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration told doctors to stop prescribing the top 80-milligram dose of simvastatin, also known by the brand name Zocor, to new patients because of a heightened risk ...

Statins may directly affect blood pressure regulation, independently of their lipid-lowering properties. A report by scientists from the University of Sassari shows that simvastatin therapy reduces ...

NEOPRISM-CRC: Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab stratified to tumor mutation burden for high-risk stage 2 or stage 3 deficient-MMR/MSI-high colorectal cancer. Background: In retrospective studies statin use ...

Patients with intermediate and mild Parkinson disease, defined by a Hoehn & Yahr stage of 3 or less, experienced an additional deterioration in motor function with simvastatin compared with placebo ...

Liver transplant recipients who received livers from donors treated with simvastatin (FloLipid) had a higher rate of graft survival at 3 months and 6 months, a researcher said. In a randomized phase ...

Simvastatin is prescribed for high cholesterol. It’s a generic medication, available as the brand-name drug Zocor. It comes as an oral tablet and an oral solution. The cost of simvastatin can vary, ...

Retrospective studies have shown that statins decrease the rate and severity of exacerbations, the rate of hospitalization, and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We ...