[operation clinton cleanup]

One approved drug, called niacin, is known to both raise HDL and reduce cardiovascular risk but also causes an unpleasant sensation of heat and tingling. Researchers are exploring whether they can bypass this side effect and whether niacin can lower disease risk more than statins alone.

I thought Niacin was a vitamin, not a drug.

[kinoxi]

I've heard sporadic references to companies trying to (and succeeding) patent DNA, so why not vitamins?

[Brad’s Gramma]

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2006/12/why_did_a_promising_heart_drug.html


All you ever needed to know about niacin and then some.

Maybe. :)

It's a link off of the above link provided by the poster of this thread.

[hosepipe]

[ I thought Niacin was a vitamin, not a drug. ]

Shuuush.. Don't make "them" mad or they will make food a drug and we will need a script to get any..

[neverdem]

I thought Niacin was a vitamin, not a drug.

When it's used in physiologic doses, it's a vitamin. But when you use it in pharmacologic doses, it's working as a drug.