Word: probucol
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ANGIOPLASTY AMELIORATED Treating balloon-angioplasty patients with a powerful antioxidant drug called probucol can significantly reduce their chances of needing to have the procedure repeated...
Today's New England Journal of Medicine reports that Canadian doctors have found that the controversial drug probucol halves the need for repeat angioplasties, which are given to 20 percent of the 1 million people who undergo the proceedure each year. The $16,000 surgery is often repeated within a few months because of reclogging...
...Food and Drug Administration might be reluctant to green-light the drug. That's because the FDA's pressure prompted Hoechst-Marion-Roussel to pull probucol from the market two years ago: The drug lowers the body's levels of artery-protecting "good" cholesterol by 40 percent, a definite drawback...
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