Toll-Free Screening, Advice Service Would Enchance OTC Mevacor - Merck

Merck would support an OTC version of its statin drug Mevacor with an ambitious customer education program that would ensure proper usage of the cholesterol-lowering medication, the firm stated July 13 at a joint meeting of FDA's Nonprescription and Endocrinologic & Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committees.