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FDA Medwatch Alert: Red Yeast Rice by Doctor’s Best: Recall - Undeclared Lovastatin

ISSUE: Doctor’s Best is voluntarily recalling lot 3121005 (7379 bottles) of Red Yeast Rice dietary supplement, 600 mg Capsules, 120-count bottles to the retail level. Doctor’s Best Red Yeast Rice has ...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Statins and HIV or Hepatitis C Drugs: Drug Safety Communication - Interaction Increases Risk of Muscle Injury

ISSUE: FDA notified healthcare professionals  of updates to the prescribing information concerning interactions between  protease inhibitors and certain statin  drugs. Protease inhibitors and statins ...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Statin Drugs - Drug Safety Communication: Class Labeling Change

ISSUE: FDA has approved important safety label changes for the class of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins. The changes include removal of routine monitoring of liver enzymes from drug...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Zocor (simvastatin): Label Change - New Restrictions, Contraindications, and Dose Limitations

Simvastatin sold under the brand-name Zocor, as a single-ingredient generic product, and sold in combination with ezetimibe as Vytorin and in combination with niacin as Simcor [UPDATED 12/15/2011]...

FDA Approves Combination Therapy Juvisync

SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Juvisync (sitagliptin and simvastatin), a fixed-dose combination (FDC) prescription...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Zocor (simvastatin): Label Change - New Restrictions, Contraindications, and Dose Limitations

Simvastatin sold under the brand-name Zocor, as a single-ingredient generic product, and sold in combination with ezetimibe as Vytorin and in combination with niacin as Simcor [Posted 06/08/2011]...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Statin drugs and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

[Posted 09/30/2008] An FDA analysis provides new evidence that the use of statins does not increase incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease often referred to as...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Ezetimibe/Simvastatin (Vytorin); Simvastatin (Zocor); and Ezetimibe (Zetia)

[Posted 08/21/2008] FDA informed healthcare professionals that the Agency is investigating a report from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) trial of a possible association...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Simvastatin Used With Amiodarone

[Posted 08/08/2008] FDA notified healthcare professionals of the risk of muscle injury, rhabdomyolysis, which can lead to kidney failure or death, when simvastatin is used with amiodarone. This risk...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Ezetimibe/Simvastatin (marketed as Vytorin), Ezetimibe (marketed as Zetia), and Simvastatin (marketed as Zocor)

[Posted 01/25/2008] FDA provided healthcare professionals with an early communication about an ongoing data review for Ezetimibe/Simvastatin (marketed as Vytorin), Ezetimibe (marketed as Zetia), and...

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