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- 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
- Generic Lipitor and Caduet under your 2011 Christmas tree
- What this means is that by Christmas of 2011 if I live long enough I could replace drugs which now cost $60/month in co-pays with a single generic pill costing as little as $10/month. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- 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
- 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
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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
- Health IT prevents heart attacks?
- 68,560 people with diabetes or heart disease were given a combination of generic statins and hypertension drugs, resulting in 1,271 fewer heart attacks and strokes. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- 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
- Endocrinology Lectures 1.1 (Mobile)
- This set of files consists of 26 lectures that cover a broad spectrum of diagnoses in endocrinology. They are intended for use as reference material by physicians and other health care professionals. I am an endocrinologist at the University of California Los Angeles and this material is used to train...
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- The Cheerios Kerfluffle
- The Cheerios KerfluffleUltimately General Mills will winAs long as their claims are true and they can back it up and they say they can, ultimately the government cannot stop General Mills from making the claim. General Hills may have to jump through some legal hoops to do so, but the...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- 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
- 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
- Software and business method patents take a hit
- Software and business method patents take a hitIf you want to see technology take off...completely do away with patents and copyrights. Once you free new technology to be improved by all and not just its owner, technology will finally reach its potential.Good news for technology consultantsThe biggest winners from...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-01
- 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
- 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
- GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart disease
- What makes GSMs so promising is that, while statins may stop plaque from forming they do nothing about plaque which is there, while with the new drugs "GSM agents actually stick to the Abeta already in the brain, keeping it from aggregating." by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Diabetes is also heart disease
- Diabetes is also heart diseaseCalling Steve and Bill......where's my USB blood sugar tester? Where's my USB urine tester? Where's my USB E_Coli-tuned portable field analyzer? Quit the mp3 player refreshes and your horning in on the movie bizniz, and get crackin' building some real life-improvment devices, instead...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-08
- Diabetes is also heart disease
- Rigorous control of blood sugar won't save diabetics the heart ravages which come with the disease, new studies show. Instead diabetics need to treat themselves as we heart patients do, with statins, blood pressure control, diet, exercise and a baby aspirin before bedtime. Their current regimen for...
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- 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
- 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
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