Have Vytorin’s falling sales finally stabilized?
For a while it seemed as if sales of Merck’s blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug Vytorin would plummet into oblivion. Unfavorable and botched ENHANCE trial results, harrowing SEAS trial results, lawsuits filed on behalf of individuals and government, congressional inquiries, and so on plagued Merck and co-creator Schering-Plough because it looked as if Vytorin was at best a dud and at worst a cancer-inducing danger.