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• Vytorin and Zetia - Consumers Ripped Off

  Jean Martin | March 31, 2008 10:35 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Doctors are being urged to cut their prescriptions of the popular cholesterol-lowering drugs Vytorin and Zetia in patients. A recent clinical study showed that Vytorin and Zetia were far more expensive yet far less effective than statin drugs. The study did not raise significant safety issues among patients treated with Vytorin, but did suggest that patients need not pay the higher cost for...

• Retirees Receive Bad Investment Advice

  Jean Martin | March 13, 2008 5:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Retirees frequently seek investment advice as to how to best manage their retirement funds. This advice sometimes includes the investment of a large percentage of the retiree's funds into high cost, high fee variable annuities and related investments and often the advice comes with assurances that these investments will produce monthly income. Unfortunately, these retiree investment products...