This could, of course, be total coincidence, but this morning was the first time in a long time that I started seeing advertisements for Merck’s Zocor, a cholesterol-lowering drug. ( Merck is the maker of Vioxx, and may have known as early as 1996 that Vioxx was associated with an increased risk of stroke or heart attack. Vioxx was taken off the market very recently.)

The really tacky part is that Merck (via Zocor) has a new patient brochure called Your Heart Matters . You can download it from their zocor.com website. Apparently, the heart matters if you’re taking Zocor, but not if you took Vioxx.

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