X-Message-Number: 17116
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:56:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: Statin Cholesterol-Lower Drugs & Costs

> Message #17107 From: 
> 
> Drug companies have some of the very healthiest profit margins of any 
> industry in the USA--I don't.  Per my checking today, K-Mart pharmacies in 
> Raleigh, NC will fill a prescription of thirty 10 mg Lipitor tablets at a 
> costs $56.99.
>
Check out Policosanol. It has a better therapeutic response, and it is
cheaper. See (Int J Clin Clin Pharm Res XIX(4) 117-127 1999) to see how
10 mg Policosanol leaves 20 mg Lipitor in the dust.

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