Our story last time about the dangers of statins has clearly struck a chord with drug regulators in the UK who are now making them available over-the-counter. So anyone can pop into their local pharmacy and pick up a supply of these great drugs that...
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
Doctors are enthusiasts, who often seize upon an all-purpose product - the type of gadget that claims to hoover your livingroom, cut your grass, wash your dog and put out the rubbish.
The latest drugs which look like making a fortune for the drugs industry are those designed to lower blood cholesterol levels. ...
THE STATE OF THE DRUGS INDUSTRY, PART II: Were Bayer holding out?
Pravastatin sodium (Lipostat in the UK, Pravachol in the US), one of a new breed of statin cholesterol lowering drugs, is using a different marketing ploy to increase the drug's market share flat ...
The 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 ...
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