(CBS/AP) Is Zocor dangerous? The FDA is warning that high ... The 80-milligram dose should be used only in patients who have taken it for more than a year without signs of injury.

Zocor (simvastatin) and Lipitor (atorvastatin) are both statin drugs, which are medications used to lower cholesterol levels ...

Aetna found that a price break on Zocor wasn’t worth sending patients a message that they could get a brand-name drug for less than generics, Elliott said. Any erosion in the use of generics ...

The highest approved dose of simvastatin -- 80 mg -- should be used only in those patients who have already been taking it for at least 12 months without signs of myopathy, the FDA announced ...

Wolozin's team used the immense U.S. Veterans Affairs database, with detailed information on 4.5 million patients. Some 727,000 of these patients took Zocor, about 54,000 took Lipitor, and about ...

The FDA on Wednesday said use of the 80 milligram dose of simvastatin should "be sharply curtailed because of the risk of muscle injury." The agency says doctors should avoid starting patients on ...

Merck's Zocor may put some patients at greater risk for muscle injury when taken at the highest approved dose, U.S. regulators said as part of a review of widely used cholesterol medicines.

The agency singled out atorvastatin (Lipitor), rosuvastatin (Crestor), and simvastatin (Zocor ... and telaprevir and should be used with caution -- at the lowest effective dose -- among patients ...