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- Health IT prevents heart attacks?
- Statins: heart attacks down, other deaths UPWhat the statin producers highlight is of course the small decrease in heart attacks. What they don't want you to know that due to statins the death rate due to *other* causes go UP, causing the total morbidity rate to actually be somewhat higher.This...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Take the CRP in my blood down, or the new statin dance
- Take the CRP in my blood down, or the new statin danceQuick response. Thank you.There's already resistance to the study findings. The study considered the presence of irritation, and not the cholesterol level itself. People with acceptable cholesterol levels do have heart attacks and strokes.So this study...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- B vitamins and folic acid offer no cancer protection
- B vitamins and folic acid offer no cancer protectionLies and agendasLies which are driven by agendas are never useful. In part because they lead to the liar thinking everyone is as crazy as they are, that there are dark conspiracies among scientists or other decision makers aimed at "suppressing the...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Pediatric market opened to statins
- Pediatric market opened to statinsPediatric market opened to statinsI hope this article is a joke of some sort. I can't imagine an 8 year old having to take a statin drug. I have to ask the question, what has changed since we were kids to today that is...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- 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. ...
- Discussion threads 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%...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
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- Insurance reform is not health care
- So whose fault is your inertia?>I should have had my cholesterol checked earlier. My neighbor should have had it checked period. That?s health care, but because we have health insurance instead my care came late, and my neighbor died.Your doctor doesn't accept appointments? S/he told you never to call and...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Not all the statin news is good
- Not all the statin news is goodStatin danger is seriousStatins are dangerous, and frequently prescribed without proper followup nor attention to side effects. I'm one of the victims.According to my internist who is also head of internal medicine at a major medical school, the actual rate of serious side...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
- Not all the statin news is good
- A CNBC anchor joked today about "putting statins in the water" but not all the news which came about about statins today was good, especially if you're long the stock. (Picture of rosuvastatin molecule from Wikimedia.) Statins do not help dialysis patients, and they are no longer the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Take the CRP in my blood down, or the new statin dance
- Many people with low cholesterol have heart attacks anyway, and a drug trial known as JUPITER, bankrolled by a statin maker, found that reducing CRP levels actually cut risks of a stroke or other other coronary event by half. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Pediatric market opened to statins
- Yes, if you have to give your kid a statin at 8 to prevent a future heart attack I think there is something wrong with your parenting. But should the kid pay for it with an early death? When it can be prevented? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Chronic conditions break the bank
- Chronic conditions break the bankUnpatentable therapy that won't break the bankEnd-result data, historical statistical data showing the longevity records of people exposed to niacin therapy, has shown that niacin, alone, significantly increased mortality.I recently read articles at http://www.cholesterolscore.com that claim niacin (B3) improves all the blood/lipid ratios more effectively than...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- The Inflammation Pathway from Cholesterol to Aging (Mobile)
- The Inflammation Pathway from Cholesterol to Agingpowered by Skyscape Publisher: S.O.T.A. Technologies, Inc. Dr. Sota Omoigui explores the relationship between inflammatory processes and the development of diseases associated with aging. He also proposes potential new drugs that could mitigate these disease processes. Dr. Omoigui focuses on how production of cholesterol...
- Software downloads 2008-04-11
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Health conspiracies usually aren't
- The world is filled with health conspiracy theorists. (Picture from Sushimoo of a dog wearing a tin foil hat.) My chiropractor finds most conventional health treatments to be a scam. My sister finds chiropractic to be a scam. One of the favorite targets of conspiracy...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Prevention killing the health care system
- In all the debates about health care inflation the core problem is not being addressed. Ben Franklin said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and catching disease before it spreads does cut the cost of treatment. The problem is the cost...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
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