Most diseases are not caused by one gene alone - there is no 'obesity gene' or 'heart disease gene' - but by the interaction of lots of genetic and environmental factors.

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Glaxo plans to bring the best one into final-stage trials in thousands of patients within a year, aiming to show that adding the compound to existing regimens can prevent far more heart attacks than cholesterol-lowering drugs alone.

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Stimulating the 5-HT2C receptor alone does not appear to cause hallucinations or heart valvular problems.

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Their paramedics, and theirs alone, can give you a shot of a life-saving heart drug, frusemide, and also the best drug available for relieving your pain, diamorphine.

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The new compound, torcetrapib, is aimed at reducing heart attacks far more than the one-third or so seen with Lipitor alone.

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The study, called ENHANCE and started in June 2002, intended to prove that adding Zetia to Zocor caused less heart-attack-causing plaque to build up in patients' arteries than Zocor alone.

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The study tests whether Vytorin, which is a combination of Schering-Plough's (nyse: SGP - news - people ) Zetia and Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor, prevents heart attacks, strokes and deaths better than Zocor alone.

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