Q:Everyday, I read in the paper about how cholesterol lowering drugs have now definitely been shown to save lives. My doctor is pressing me to take pravastatin because my cholesterol is slightly e ...
Why have we never heard about the outcome of the first statin trial, the largest of them all? .. ...
Just a few short months ago, cholesterol drugs were a dead duck. Studies began appearing showing that even after years of cholesterol drug consumption, patients were no better off in terms of prev ...
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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. ...
STATIN ALERT: It's new, and it may be dangerous
More on the cholesterol debate (WDDTY Vol 3 No 1). ...
Doctors may be pushing statins like mad for everything from osteoporosis to Alzheimer's disease, but patients aren't having it. Although the use of statin drugs has increased fourfold between 1996 ...
'Heaven can wait' trills the advertisement for Zocor, a cholesterol-lowering drug from Merck. But for how long? might be the cynical rider.