Abbott’s TriCor Fails To Beat A Sugar Pill « The Science Business

ATLANTA -- A popular triglyceride-lowering drug that has been taken by millions of Americans failed to prevent heart disease in a big federal study being presented today.

The drug, TriCor from Abbott Laboratories, has been used for over a quarter of a century to lower levels of fatty particles in the blood called triglycerides. The presumption has been that doing so would prevent heart attacks or heart-related deaths. TriCor has annual sales of more than $1 billion.

But the new

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