Statins used for lowering cholesterol are reckoned to be some of the safest prescription drugs around. But new evidence coming out of the US suggests this may no longer be the case.
Two correspondents - in WDDTY vol 12 no 11 and vol 13 no 3 - reported muscle weakness after taking simvastatin. Statins block the body’s synthesis of coenzyme Q10
A new analysis throws into doubt the wisdom of using statin therapy to reduce the risk of fractures. ...
No doubt you’ve been reading the devastating press about vitamins being useless in the treatment of heart disease. Before you throw your bottles in the bin (or before the EU does that for you), it is worth sifting through the details,
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 ...
Why have we never heard about the outcome of the first statin trial, the largest of them all? .. ...
Statins are the new wonder drugs now used to prevent everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's. But new evidence from a Finnish doctor shows that statins don't lower cholesterol which, in any c ...