What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe cholesterol lowering drug simvastatin may cause the development of the muscular disorder poly myositis in some patients. ...
Questran is one of a host of drugs routinely prescribed to lower supposedly raised cholesterol levels in patients. Prescriptions of cholesterol lowering drugs generally are on the up and up. Acco ...
Heart patients with normal cholesterol levels are not helped by cholesterol lowering drugs, a research team has concluded. They discovered that the drugs had "no measurable benefit" on coronary ar ...
Medicine is always on the look out for a wonder drug that can miraculously tackle anything it's put up against. Take aspirin, for instance, a painkiller that became the cure all of the century, w ...
If your doctor is still prescribing clofibrate (Atroid) a drug that lowers cholesterol he could be endangering your life. ...
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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 ...
Amid our mania for all but cutting out fat from the diet, medical experts now confess that lowering cholesterol isn't such a good idea in preventing a heart attack. ... ...
Medical experts have finally agreed that cholesterol-lowering drugs are being given out unnecessarily to people. ...
Cholesterol lowering drugs should be offered only as a last resort, a government funded body has reported. Patients should first be encouraged to stop smoking, take exercise and improve their diet ...
