Full-page newspaper advertisements are urging patients with high cholesterol levels who are stopping Baycol (cerivastatin) to ask their doctors about Pravachol (pravastatin), Lipitor (atorvastatin), Zocor (simvastatin) or Lescol (fluvastatin). Some advertisements come with a coupon for free medication. Lovastatin, which is available generically, has not appeared in similar advertisements. Cerivastatin was withdrawn from the market on August 8 because of post-marketing reports of 31 cases of fatal rhabdomyolysis....
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Title: Substituting For Cerivastatin (Baycol)
Publication: The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
Issue #: 1113
Article Code: 1113a
Date: September 17, 2001
Volume: 43
Pages: 79-80