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Specials

Take Your Statins To Prevent Heart Attack!

Take Your Statins To Prevent Heart Attack!

Half of heart attacks and strokes happen among apparently healthy men and women with normal or low...
» read full story November 17th, 2008 - 14:10
Arteries of Most Obese Kids – As Thick and Stiff as Middle-Aged Adults’

Arteries of Most Obese Kids – As Thick and Stiff as Middle-Aged Adults’

Hundreds of previous studies have shown that obesity comes with a number of risks, such as heart...
» read full story November 12th, 2008 - 14:07

Crestor Can Detect Risks Of Heart Attack

A cholesterol-lowering statin drug administered to people who have normal cholesterol can cut their...
» read full story November 11th, 2008 - 23:53
Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Crestor Benefic for Healthy People As Well

Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Crestor Benefic for Healthy People As Well

Statins of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been known to reduce heart risk in people with...
» read full story November 10th, 2008 - 14:30
Safety of Statin Use for Children Questioned

Safety of Statin Use for Children Questioned

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ decision to change its guidelines regarding children and...
» read full story July 09th, 2008 - 15:13
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U.S.

Statins Good for People with Normal Cholesterol Levels Too

Statins Good for People with Normal Cholesterol Levels Too

Statins have long been prescribed for people diagnosed with high levels of bad cholesterol in...
» read full story November 17th, 2008 - 16:00
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Business

Vytorin Sales Drop for Schering and Merck, Due to Ineffectiveness

Shares of Merck and Schering-Plough dropped greatly on Monday, after a research revealed that the...
» read full story March 31st, 2008 - 17:11
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World

Two Expensive Cholesterol Drugs May Be Ineffective

Two Expensive Cholesterol Drugs May Be Ineffective

U.S. spent $1.5 billion in 2006 on Vytorin, a cholesterol drug that actually does not work better...
» read full story March 31st, 2008 - 15:03
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Health

Statins May Reduce Risk of Developing Prostate Cancer

Statins May Reduce Risk of Developing Prostate Cancer

According to new studies presented at the American Urological Association’s annual meeting...
» read full story April 26th, 2009 - 20:33
Cholesterol Drug Crestor Reduces Risk of Vein Clots As Well

Cholesterol Drug Crestor Reduces Risk of Vein Clots As Well

Besides reducing the incidence of heart attacks and stroke, AstraZeneca’s cholesterol drug...
» read full story March 30th, 2009 - 14:10
The Number of Kids in Need of Statins Lower than Expected

The Number of Kids in Need of Statins Lower than Expected

Fewer than 1 percent of American kids need cholesterol-lowering drugs, according to a new study...
» read full story February 17th, 2009 - 14:00

FDA Approves Abbott’s Cholesterol Medicine TriLipix

Federal regulators approved Abbott’s TripLipix for stand-alone treatment and combo use to lower...
» read full story December 16th, 2008 - 12:22
Generic Heart Drugs As Effective As Brand-Name Counterparts

Generic Heart Drugs As Effective As Brand-Name Counterparts

Brand-name drugs used to treat heart disease aren’t better than generics, a new analysis shows....
» read full story December 03rd, 2008 - 14:00
Research Proves Gingko Biloba Is No Good

Research Proves Gingko Biloba Is No Good

The widely used herbal supplement, Ginkgo biloba, does not appear to prevent the Alzheimer disease...
» read full story November 20th, 2008 - 20:58
Crestor and Its Effects

Crestor and Its Effects

The drug Crestor, e new comer designed to lower cholesterol, has also been proven to lower the risk...
» read full story November 12th, 2008 - 18:20
A Simple Blood Test Can Spot People Who Are At Risk Of Heart Attack

A Simple Blood Test Can Spot People Who Are At Risk Of Heart Attack

According to the findings of a new study presented at the meeting of the American Heart...
» read full story November 11th, 2008 - 16:09
Study: Statins Have Beneficial Effects for Healthy People Too

Study: Statins Have Beneficial Effects for Healthy People Too

Sunday, during a New Orleans meeting of the American Heart Association, researchers revealed that...
» read full story November 10th, 2008 - 21:25
Statins Prevent Heart Attacks, Strokes, May Benefit Healthy People Too

Statins Prevent Heart Attacks, Strokes, May Benefit Healthy People Too

Heart attacks and strokes may be cut by roughly 50 percent among patients who receive preventive...
» read full story November 10th, 2008 - 11:00
Statins May Cut Pneumonia Death Risk, New Study Shows

Statins May Cut Pneumonia Death Risk, New Study Shows

According to the results of a new study featured in the October 27 issue of Archives of Internal...
» read full story October 29th, 2008 - 13:40
FDA Study: Statins Don’t Pose Risk Of Lou Gehrig’s Disease

FDA Study: Statins Don’t Pose Risk Of Lou Gehrig’s Disease

Cholesterol-lowering drugs or statins do not increase the incidence of amyotrophic lateral...
» read full story September 30th, 2008 - 14:30

This Year’s Lasker Awards for Medical Research: Top Five

Akira Endo, a Japanese scientist who discovered the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug, was...
» read full story September 15th, 2008 - 14:00
Five Prominent Scientists Win U.S. Medical Awards

Five Prominent Scientists Win U.S. Medical Awards

Akira Endo, a 74-year-old Japanese of Biopharm Research Laboratories in Tokyo, won the clinical...
» read full story September 14th, 2008 - 18:27
Five Renowned Researchers Honored with This Year’s Lasker Awards

Five Renowned Researchers Honored with This Year’s Lasker Awards

Akira Endo, 74, of Biopharm Research Laboratories in Tokyo was one of the five scientists awarded...
» read full story September 14th, 2008 - 14:13
Experts at Odds over Vytorin's Alleged Cancer Risk

Experts at Odds over Vytorin's Alleged Cancer Risk

Vytorin prescriptions drop as studies link the cholesterol drug with higher numbers of cancer...
» read full story September 02nd, 2008 - 20:54
Fish Oil Effective Against Heart Failure, Statins Show No Effect

Fish Oil Effective Against Heart Failure, Statins Show No Effect

Fish oil, with its high concentration of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), has proven...
» read full story September 01st, 2008 - 00:19
Vytorin's Alleged Cancer Risk Questioned by FDA, Experts

Vytorin's Alleged Cancer Risk Questioned by FDA, Experts

Earlier this year, it was revealed that the U.S. spent $1.5 billion in 2006 on Vytorin, a...
» read full story August 22nd, 2008 - 16:41

FDA to Review Vytorin for Possible Cancer Risk

A recent study on cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin, called SEAS, linking it to an increased risk...
» read full story August 22nd, 2008 - 14:00
Getting Rid Of Your Cholesterol Might Not Cause You Cancer

Getting Rid Of Your Cholesterol Might Not Cause You Cancer

Even though a study conducted last year announced that there might be connection between...
» read full story August 21st, 2008 - 15:19
Study: B Vitamins Don’t Reduce Cardiovascular Risk

Study: B Vitamins Don’t Reduce Cardiovascular Risk

Use of B vitamin appears to be inefficient in preventing death or cardiovascular events, according...
» read full story August 20th, 2008 - 14:00
FDA Issues Warning On Cholesterol – Heart Drug Interaction

FDA Issues Warning On Cholesterol – Heart Drug Interaction

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» read full story August 09th, 2008 - 13:39
Statins May Be The Key To a Dementia-Free Retirement

Statins May Be The Key To a Dementia-Free Retirement

According to the results of a new study featured in the July 29 issue of Neurology, those who use...
» read full story July 29th, 2008 - 23:28
Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Could Halve Dementia Risk

Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Could Halve Dementia Risk

Cholesterol-lowering drugs or statins usually used to prevent heart attacks and strokes may be the...
» read full story July 29th, 2008 - 12:05
Genetic Variation Linked To Muscle Pain Due To Statins

Genetic Variation Linked To Muscle Pain Due To Statins

A genetic variation might be responsible for a rare but serious side effect of...
» read full story July 24th, 2008 - 15:05
AAP Makes Controversial Recommendations for Statin Use in Kids

AAP Makes Controversial Recommendations for Statin Use in Kids

The American Academy of Pediatrics has changed its guidelines, recommending testing of overweight...
» read full story July 08th, 2008 - 17:55
Key Cardiologist Speaks About Vytorin Scandal

Key Cardiologist Speaks About Vytorin Scandal

A key cardiologist who worked with Merck and Schering-Plough on a comprehensive study on their...
» read full story April 15th, 2008 - 22:20
Vytorin and Zetia Use Questioned after Release of Study’s Results

Vytorin and Zetia Use Questioned after Release of Study’s Results

Top U.S. heart doctors warned Sunday at the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting in...
» read full story March 31st, 2008 - 11:05
High Risk for Kids whose Parents Both Have Alzheimer's

High Risk for Kids whose Parents Both Have Alzheimer's

A new study on 111 families in which both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease has found...
» read full story March 10th, 2008 - 21:57
Statins Do Not Protect against Alzheimer’s Disease

Statins Do Not Protect against Alzheimer’s Disease

Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins were thought to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s, but a...
» read full story January 18th, 2008 - 15:34
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