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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
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- 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
- The fight over statins
- Depending on who you read statins like simvastatin and Lipitor are either the "greatest things evah!" or an out-and-out fraud. There are two reasons for this. Studies of long-term statin use are giving results which sometimes appear unclear; and Statins are an enormous...
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, News, Heart Attack, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Measuring exercise works
- Measuring exercise worksLOLI have already racked close to 10K on my hybrid commuter bike! So when you post excellent health numbers like thisBP: 116/60Pulse: 59bpmBody Fat: 8% displacement testLDL (Bad...): 127HDL (Good...): 63Triglycerides: 168All at the age of 40... then the real value of the exercise is realized! ]:)So good...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Fitlinxx, health care
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- Lower Cholesterol (exe)
- Cholesterol is a fatty substance present in the human body, 80% of which is manufactured by the liver. The other 20% comes from your diet such as meat, eggs and dairy products. There are two types of cholesterol, good cholesterol - HDL (High-density lipoproteins) and bad cholesterol - LDL (Low-density...
- Tags: Body, Cholesterol, Construction
- Software downloads 2007-06-29
- Liverpool City Council Is Using New Workflow and Imaging Software to Tackle Some Highly Inefficient Services
- Liverpool City Council has pledged to its 440,000 residents to transform service delivery and working practices through a radical modernisation programme. The implementation of a sophisticated document management system was therefore a key priority for LDL - to help it manage 205,000 properties, 80,000 benefit customers and 185,000 council tax...
- Tags: Imaging, Workflow, Liverpool City Council, Document Management, Taxes, Free Trade, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Financial Planning, Human Resources
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