Word: choloxin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early results seemed impressive, Dr. Krasno conceded that longer-range studies involving many more subjects are needed. The Heart Institute project has so far recruited 4,800 men for testing, and will eventually have 8,400 at 55 clinics across the U.S. The test program involves four drugs: dextrothyroxine (Choloxin), nicotinic acid (niacin) and estrogens (female sex hormones) in addition to clofibrate. Unlike the Krasno study...
...blood will protect him against artery disease, heart attacks and strokes, many doctors think it may and are willing to try using drugs to prove it. The first such drug, MER/29, had to be yanked off the market because of its severe side effects. Two others, Atromid-S and Choloxin, are now approved and so far appear to be safe, but because they work through metabolic and hormonal mechanisms, many physicians are keep ing their fingers crossed. Last week a Duke University surgeon reported that a plastic resin, which works more like a chemical sponge than a true drug...
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