Personal Injury Law

Drug Companies Pull Vytorin TV Ad

By Joe Saunders

A week after a study showed that Vytorin is no more effective in reducing cholesterol than the company's generic equivalent, Merck and Schering-Plough withdrew their direct-to-consumer marketing ads. Vytorin, a combination of Zetia and Merck's Zocor, lost patent protection in 2006. The marketing campaign was a familiar one to television viewers and was dubbed "food and family" depicting in a light-hearted fashion how heredity and eating habits can affect a person's cholesterol. However, the marketing campaign never mentioned any risks or the fact that its generic equivalent was at the very least, as effective as the expensive Vytorin.

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Full post as published by Tampa Bay Personal Injury Law on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).