Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the developed world. Although this disease employs more doctors than any other branch of medicine, recent discoveries show some fundamental flaws in our understanding of it - particularly the basic...
If I had more money than morals, the first thing I’d do is plough every last red cent of mine into a drug company. No other profession, to my mind, has such total success in inventing a dubious solution, manufacturing the market to peddle it to and...
In addition to suppressing CoQ10 and possibly causing CHF, the major side-effects of statins include muscle pain and weakness (myopathy), liver and kidney damage,
For all the scares about cancer, heart disease is still the number-one killer disease in the West. The immediate causes of death are often heart attack and stroke,
Memory loss is something we all fear as we age. After all, memory is what makes us who and what we are, as having access to the huge database in our brain is integral to our very concept of ourselves. We can’t survive independently without it...
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 ...
ONE PINT OF LAGER and a packet of statins
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...
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.
I have been very reluctantly taking warfarin for the past four years in connection with atrial fibrillation. In WDDTY vol 12 no 9, it states that a multicentre US trial has found that warfarin and aspirin perform equally well in