Zocor Information

What's inside Zocor

Recent Zocor Side Effects

Posted by corve2 7 days ago
I am a 58 year old female Who has been taking Simvaststin for 16 months . I have been increasingly bothered with mainly nigh...

Posted by pianoman2 7 days ago
I am 50 years old. Two years ago was diagnosed with very high LDL and low HDL. I told my doctor then that I did not want to g...

Posted by tyleen about 1 month ago
I took Zocor for 9 months after I had a heart attack. After about 8 months I began having sever muscle spasm in my legs. I ...

Zocor in the News

Lipitor's pitchman gets axed - International Herald Tribune
Pfizer turned to Jarvik because Lipitor, the world's best-selling drug, is losing market share to a generic version of a competing cholesterol drug, Zocor, ...
Mon Mar 10 12:13:19 -0400 2008

Drug Makers Increased Prices By Average Of 7.4% In 2007 For ... - Medical News Today (press release)
The drug with the largest price increase -- 27.7% -- was Sanofi-Aventis' sleep aid Ambien, while the price of Merck's cholesterol drug Zocor did not change. ...
Thu Mar 06 14:04:00 -0500 2008

Drug Makers Increased Prices by Average of 7.4% in 2007 for ... - Kaiser network.org
The drug with the largest price increase -- 27.7% -- was Sanofi-Aventis' sleep aid Ambien, while the price of Merck's cholesterol drug Zocor did not change. ...
Wed Mar 05 11:35:38 -0500 2008

Zocor Chemical Information

simvastatin - A lipid-lowering agent derived synthetically from a fermentation product of the fungus Aspergillus terreus. Hydrolyzed in vivo to an active metabolite, simvastatin competitively inhibits hepatic hydroxymethyl-glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, the enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of HMG-CoA to mevalonate, a key step in cholesterol synthesis. This agent lowers plasma cholesterol and lipoprotein levels, and modulates immune responses by suppressing MHC II (major histocompatibility complex II) on interferon gamma-stimulated, antigen-presenting cells such as human vascular endothelial cells. (NCI04)