"The fact that we've got two new drugs approved will reaffirm to the public that this truly isa medical problem and there's aplace for pharmacotherapy, " says Ed Hendricks, head of the Center for Weight Loss Management, which treated Mrs.
Schering wants to make this entirely about LDL (the bad cholesterol) and public health, but there isa valid scientific debate about the place of Zetia in the anti-cholesterol armamentarium.