Disappointing Drug Trial for Popular Cholesterol Remedy

By Fox News

Published March 31, 2008 9:05am EDT | Updated June 11, 2015 11:46am EDT

Leading doctors urged a return to older, tried-and-true treatments for high cholesterol after hearing full results Sunday of a failed trial of Vytorin.

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