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Landmark Study Demonstrates Pfizer’s Celebrex (Celecoxib) Has Similar Cardiovascular Risk As Compared To Prescription Doses Of Ibuprofen and Naproxen

Patients Taking Pfizer’s Celebrex (celecoxib) Experienced Fewer Gastrointestinal Events As Compared to Prescription Doses of Ibuprofen and Naproxen Study Findings Dispel Long Standing Perceptions of Excess Cardiovascular Risk Associated With Long Term Use Of Celebrex Results of PRECISION Study Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Heart Association in New Orleans Provide Important Information […]

Merck Announces that IMPROVE-IT Achieved Primary Endpoint; Data to be Presented at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions Today

Data are Embargoed by American Heart Association until 10:45 AM CT Today WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., November 17, 2014 –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today said that IMPROVE-IT met its primary endpoint. The results are scheduled to be presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions later today. The data […]

VYTORIN® (ezetimibe/simvastatin) Significantly Reduced Cardiovascular Events More than Simvastatin Alone in Patients Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndromes in the Investigational IMPROVE-IT Study

CHICAGO, November 17, 2014 –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the investigational IMPROVE-IT study met its primary and all secondary composite efficacy endpoints. In IMPROVE-IT, patients taking the LDL-cholesterol-lowering medicine VYTORIN® (ezetimibe/simvastatin) – which combines simvastatin with the non-statin ZETIA® (ezetimibe) — experienced significantly fewer major […]

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