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Today's Globe: exercise and memory, Vytorin cancer link, Lipitor ads

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney September 3, 2008 06:38 AM

Brisk walking led to slight improvements on mental tests for older people with memory problems in what is billed as the first rigorous test of exercise on the aging brain.

Schering-Plough Corp. and Merck & Co. may see sales of their cholesterol drug Vytorin drop even further after it was linked to cancer deaths in a three-study analysis intended to reassure patients.

Pfizer Inc. resumed television ads yesterday for the cholesterol pill Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug, six months after stopping commercials featuring artificial heart inventor Robert Jarvik that led to a congressional investigation.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.