Dual Cholesterol Therapy

Pfizer Inc tries to use Niaspan with other medication to raise good cholesterol and decrease the bad cholesterols. With the current technology, many patients use medication to decrease the bad cholesterols (or LDL). The frequent medication for this use, statins often cause heart attacks and other problems as side effects. Therefore, doctors found ways to boost good cholesterols (or HDl) instead of reducing LDL. Pfizer's torcetrapib is very potential as HDL booster, but it is still dangerous to use for it uses 'laser-guided missile approach.'

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/04/cholesterol.drug.ap/index.html