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Study Group: Lipitor Prescribers for Angina(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 16

This study group may include physicians, care providers, and researchers specializing in internal medicine, cardiology, oncology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry, radiology, nursing, optometry, genetics, and mental health. It may also include experts knowledgeable on diagnostic labs, disease management, medical devices, long term care, surgery centers, health management, pharma, and biotechnology, among others.

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Howard Weintraub, MD
Clinical Director
New York University Medical Center

Howard Weintraub, MD, FACC, is the Clinical Director of Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at NYU Medical Center. He has been a consultant for several organizations and has been a Cardiologist for the National Football League. Dr. Weintraub has written textbook chapters on evaluation...

Harold Bays, MD, FACP, President and Medical Director, L-MARC Research CenterHarold Bays, MD, FACP
President and Medical Director
L-MARC Research Center

Harold Bays, MD, FACE, FACP, is Medical Director and President of Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center (L-MARC), a metabolic clinical research facility that has conducted over 400 phase I-IV clinical trials, including studies of all marketed lipid-altering drug treatments, as well...

Daniel Fisher, MD, FACC, FACP
Cardiologist
New York University Medical Center

Daniel Fisher, MD, FACC, FACP, is a Cardiologist at NYU Medical Center. He has a private practice in Cardiology and specializes in non-invasive cardiology. Dr. Fisher is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Nuclear Cardiology. He has lectured frequently on such topics as...

Charles Glueck, MD, Medical Research Director of Cholesterol Center, Jewish HospitalCharles Glueck, MD
Medical Research Director of Cholesterol Center
Jewish Hospital

Charles Glueck, MD, is the Medical Director of Jewish Hospital Cholesterol Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has expertise in lipids, lipoproteins, interaction of atherosclerosis and thrombosis, thrombosis, human genetics, epidemiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and hematology. Dr Glueck and colleagues...

Hossein Ghofrani, MD, Physician, Justus Liebig Universitat GiessenHossein Ghofrani, MD
Physician
Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen

Hossein Ardeschir (Ardi) Ghofrani, MD, is Lead physician of the Pulmonary Hypertension Centre at the University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC), Germany. Prof. Ghofrani is a Reviewer for various high impact scientific journals including Lancet, AJRCCM, Circulation, and Circulation research amongst others....

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Analysis of: Patients Curb Prescription Spending | online.wsj.com

Given the economic pressures on patients, they are now more likely to ask for generic medications than they were in the past.  Given that there are generic versions of several classes of medications, physicians such as me are more likely to comply with a patient's request for a generic than in...

May 28, 2008
Tekturna scripts

I am a heavy user of ARB's and Tekturna.  This article does not really show anything of significance.  Most practicing physicians have seen much better results and much better tolerability with ARB's than diuretics. I do not think this is going to change prescribing habits of anyone. ...

By Howard Weintraub, MD, Clinical Director, New York University Medical Center

By restoring function in the late Na channel and hence improving diastolic function (amongst other things), Ranexa has worked terrifically in my patients with any evidence for diastolic dysfunction. This typically manifests with shortness of breath and can be associated with an elevated level...

November 8, 2007
Even more benefit.
By Howard Weintraub, MD, Clinical Director, New York University Medical Center

The good news gets better as there is now data from MERLIN that corroborates the news from CARISA showing a reduction in HbGA1C that was significant.

ExForge is a product that we in the hypertension business are very anxious to have available. Combination tablets have been increasing in sales very dramatically in the past few years and will soon overtake, in my opinion, single agents. Lotrel led the way toward combinations that do not include a diuretic...

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