Teflon®, DuPont’s trademarked heat-resistant coating, is now everywhere. On any given morning, you may well encounter it while curling your hair, ironing your clothes, wearing your clothes, cooking your breakfast or sitting on your sofa. All the...
If your doctor is still prescribing clofibrate (Atroid) a drug that lowers cholesterol he could be endangering your life. ...
A new study on cholesterollowering drugs may have solved the riddle of why they're linked with a higher incidence of death by violence: they appear to increase depression. ...
I have just read your article on pneumonia (WDDTY vol 15 no 11), in which I was quite interested, as my mother is very subject to pneumonia. We have also just managed to get her off about seven prescription drugs. Is it possible that drugs...
DRUGS SALES RISE. And the best seller isn't even required
Individuals who have systolic hypertension and high levels of blood cholesterol in midlife appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in later life, report Fin ...
STATIN ALERT: It's new, and it may be dangerous
Does a high cholesterol level increase the risk of a heart attack? Medicine seems unable to come up with a definitive answer to this seemingly simple question, and two new studies do little to res ...
More on the cholesterol debate (WDDTY Vol 3 No 1). ...
The new evidence debunking cholesterol lowering isn't license to tuck into bacon and chips every day. As a number of writers demonstrate, the problem is that medicine has probably fingered the wr ...