EU group confirms cessation of Merck cholesterol drug



LONDON |
Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:47am EST

LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s drug regulator has reliable it is suspending selling authorizations for Merck Co’s cholesterol drug Tredaptive in Europe after a disaster in a vital investigate lifted reserve concerns.

Merck began recalling a drug, that is also sole underneath a code names Pelzont and Trevaclyn, on Jan 11 and endorsed that doctors stop prescribing it.

The medicine had been on a marketplace in 40 countries worldwide, though is not authorized in a United States.

The European Medicines Agency pronounced patients now holding a drug should see their alloy to plead their treatment.

(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters)

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