Drugs that don't work: a tough pill to swallow

Still think they will find a drug that will safely get you fatsos to slim down?

"When C.W. MacLeod’s cholesterol shot sky-high, the Texas businessman was only too happy to find a drug to bring it down.

For two years, the 57-year-old Houston resident dutifully took Vytorin, relying on his doctor’s assurance that as his levels of so-called "bad" cholesterol dropped, so would his risk of heart attack.

But MacLeod’s confidence was shaken this week, when he and millions of other Vytorin users learned that it and its component drug, Zetia, failed to work as widely expected. Final results of a clinical trial showed the drugs reduced LDL cholesterol, but failed to slow the buildup of artery-clogging plaque, suggesting they’ll do little or nothing to prevent heart attacks."

Oops.

"'It hasn’t hurt my body, but apparently it hasn’t done any good either,' said MacLeod, who wonders why he’s been shelling out $100 a month in co-payments for a brand-name drug that doesn’t work."

How would you know that? You would not. You may very well have been hurt.

“'If lowering your cholesterol doesn’t reduce your risk, then what’s the point?' another Vytorin user wrote...'Maybe I’m dense, but I just don’t understand.'”

The point is to learn from all this. If you do not, then it is not a maybe. You are dense.

People, don't put yourselves in a position where you have to rely on this crap or the crappier alternative/complementary crap.

Rely on what works.