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Statin era over?

Statin era over?Somewhat surprised, nice findAlong with my parents, I also take a small, 10mg dosage of statins. I thought lowering LDL levels had a direct correlation with a more healthful circulatory system.I'm really surprised to read that lowering LDL levels is now questioned as having any relevance. ...

Tags: Statin era, Statin, LDL

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Hobbs shows risks and rewards of predictive health

Emory's Predictive Health Institute got a qualified endorsement from its keynoter, Dr. Helen Hobbs of UT Southwestern in Dallas right. The PHI wants to marry computing, genetics, and prevention, combining what we learn about your specific genetic make-up with more general knowledge into customized health plans. ...

Tags: Heart, Health Care, Emory, PHI, LDL, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Cholesterol Tracker (Mobile)

Cholesterol is an essential part of every cell membrane. It also serves as a precursor to many hormones. Cholesterol is produced by the liver and it also enters the body from dietary sources, such as milk, eggs and meat.When there is too much cholesterol in your blood, it can build...

Tags: Mobile, Cholesterol, SoundTells, Cholesterol Tracker, Heart Attack, LDL, HDL

Software downloads 2005-12-18

Additional Resources

Infodev Cholesterol Tracker Pro for Symbian (Mobile)

Infodev Cholesterol Tracker Pro is a User-friendly Tracking tool to keep track your Personal and Family Cholesterol History. It will manage and automate every aspect of your Cholesterol. It includes Physician Information, medicine, Food Planning and Cholesterol information and much more. If you love your Family and free from cardio...

Tags: Physician, Mobile, Symbian Inc., Cholesterol, Infodev Technologies, Infodev Cholesterol Tracker Pro

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Cholesterol Tracker for Blackberry 1.0 (Mobile)

Cholesterol Tracker tracks Cholesterol details with respect to date and time. Any number of Cholesterol details can be added for a particular day. Detailed Statistics are provided to compare the LDL, HDL, Triglyceride and Total Cholesterol values with respect to date. Three Splendid Date Tracking option, with which Cholesterol details...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Cholesterol

Software downloads 2009-09-02

Cholesterol Tracker for Symbian 1.0 (Mobile)

Cholesterol Tracker tracks Cholesterol details with respect to date and time. Any number of Cholesterol details can be added for a particular day. Detailed Statistics are provided to compare the LDL, HDL, Triglyceride and Total Cholesterol values with respect to date. Three Splendid Date Tracking option, with which Cholesterol details...

Tags: Mobile, Symbian Inc., Cholesterol

Software downloads 2009-08-27

ATP III Cholesterol Management Guidelines Tool 1.2 (Mobile)

New guidelines issued on May 15 by the National Heart, Lung, and BloodInstitute (as the Third Report of the Expert Panel of the NationalCholesterol Education Program on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High BloodCholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III, or ATP III) recommend somesignificant changes in the approach to...

Tags: Mobile, Guideline, Cholesterol, Tool, Lung, Tools & Techniques, Palm OS, Productivity, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics

Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed "computational knowledge engine" at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing a global reference library and said Wolfram/Alpha will launch in "a few weeks." Wolfram's demonstration was one...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Algorithm, Search Engine, Analytics, Knowledge, Data, Search Result, Wolfram/Alpha, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram/Alpha Search Engine, Search, Engineering, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Medical Calculator 1.7 (Mobile)

Medical Calculator is an iPhone and iPod touch application that helps doctors and nurses compute useful formulas and equations. This clinical calculator gives you quick access to calculations that are too hard to memorize or perform in your head. Supports US and SI units. A-a Oxygen Gradient; ABCD2 Score for...

Tags: Mobile, Path Tracker, Open Source

Software downloads 2009-04-16

Mosby's 2009 Nursing Drug Reference (Rn-Drug) 11.0.7 (Mobile)

Mosby''s 2009 Nursing Drug Referencepowered by Skyscape Publisher: Mosby, Inc., an affiliate of Elsevier Inc. Offers instant access to key information on more than 1,300 generic and 4,500 trade-name drugs, thousands of new drug facts, and recently approved 19 drugs by the FDA.With an A-Z organization, each drug is easy...

Tags: Mobile, Appendix, Drug, Skyscape Inc., Mosby, Mosby', Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-11-09

Heart disease is simple and depressing

Heart disease is simple. We know what causes it. LDL cholesterol builds up in blood vessels until they are blocked, causing a sudden heart attack. Diet, exercise and statin drugs all cut the risk, but that risk rises constantly with age, and it starts with your first childhood Ho-Ho. by...

Tags: Heart, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Skyscape's 5-Minute Clinical Consult (5-mincc) 11.0.5 (Mobile)

Skyscape''s 5-Minute Clinical Consultpowered by Skyscape Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins The #1 selling handheld version of 5MCC since 1994!Whether you need to confirm critical diagnostic criteria before initiating treatment, or are trying to choose the best medical or surgical approach for a particular patient...Skyscape''s 5-Minute Clinical Consult ensures that...

Tags: Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Skyscape', Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Engineering, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-14

Should more doctors go to jail?

Should more doctors go to jail?It's really sad when famous people die NTNTActually...More attention should be given to the Pharmacuitical companies wasting billions and billions of our money on TV commercials instead of using the money to educate and present the drugs to doctors for consideration, and further research.I don't...

Tags: prescription

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

AMA says we all need a blood pressure monitor

I have had a blood pressure cuff for nearly a decade. The American Heart Association says this week I've been very smart. All the 78 million of us with high blood pressure should be measuring it regularly, at home, using a cuff-like device such as my Omron...

Tags: Blood Pressure, Monitor, AMA, American Heart Association, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Statin era over?

The era of statins, drugs like Zocor and Lipitor which lower cholesterol levels, may be ending. The FDA's decisions over the last week to reject Merck's Cordaptive and Isis' Mipomersen, coupled with a demand that the makers prove the drugs improve heart outcomes, looks like a turning...

Tags: Gram, Blood Pressure, Merck & Co. Inc., Lipitor, Healthcare, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Go with the generic

Go with the genericNever take statinsA multi-billion dollar industry based on mass-confusion of correlation with causation. What folly!I've been against statins from the outset. People look at me funny when I insist cholesterols are a good thing. Apparently no one educated them that cholesterol comprises about 99%...

Tags: Insurance, statin, Niacin, generic

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Go with the generic

It was fun this morning, watching the contortions of the morning anchors as they tried to spin the bad news about Zetia without admitting the plain, simple truth. If your cholesterol is high go with the generic. While Zetia and Vytorin, which combines Zetia...

Tags: Generic, Zetia, Insurance, Branding, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Marketing, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Drop that decaf!

I personally think de-caffeinated coffee tastes nasty. So it was with some joy, on my second cup of regular, that I read of an NIH-funded study showing that decaf may be worse for your heart than the high-octane stuff. The study, done at the...

Tags: Blood Pressure, Study, Dr., Atlanta, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Health conspiracies usually aren't

Health conspiracies usually aren'tExonerated?Don't you mean implicated? If not, please explain.How old was Woody Allen in Sleeper?Remember the scene in "Sleeper" where Woody's character, a health food nut, is surrounded by doctors smoking cigarettes and drinking martinis?Don't think tobacco will be rehabilitatedThe health problems associated with tobacco usage over...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, statin, Health conspiracy, health care, Statins

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

The fight over statins

The fight over statinsstatinsStatin drugs are powerful anti-inflammatory agents, and increase perfusion everywhere thru effect upon eNOS. I can appreciate their unqualified use in an ACUTE setting, post heart attack or stroke. My belief is that with prolonged use, the "pleiotropic effects" of this class of drugs may...

Tags: statin

Discussion threads 2008-01-24