Merck scraps combination diabetes drug
Merck, one of the country's largest drugmakers,
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cheap jerseys online, which is almost as potent in cutting "bad" LDL cholesterol as Lipitor, under the brand name Zocor. Many other drugmakers sell generic forms of simvastatin.Companies have been testing combination drugs as they look for ways to cut down on the number of medications that individuals use.Merck shares were up 0.4 percent at $44.18 in early afternoon trading.The company has estimated that 20 million people in the United States have type 2 diabetes, an illness closely linked to obesity and the most common form of diabetes.Sufferers of the disease often also have high cholesterol levels,
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