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• Inexpensive Supplement Niacin Better Than Zetia

  
  Midlife womens health tips, tools and resources — Authority: 110
  Yesterday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports that the very inexpensive nutritional supplement niacin worked better to clear arteries than the not so cheap and side effect rich drugs Zetia– a drug used in addition to a statin, and Vyotrin– a single pill which combines a statin with ...
  6 days ago

• Aranesp Associated With Increased Risk For Stroke In Patients With Diabetes And Chronic Kidney Disease

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 112
  TREAT Study Revealed, Also, That This Amgen Anemia Drug Was No Better Than Placebo In Reducing Deaths Or Cardiovascular Problems (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) The anemia drug Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa) might cause an increased risk for stroke in patients with diabetes and ...
  2 weeks ago

• HIV vaccines: good news or bad?

  
  The Wisdom of Whores — Authority: 406
  A month ago, the media got very excited about an HIV vaccine . Study results, released in Thailand with a maximum of fuss and a minimum of detail , showed that the two-step vaccine might protect about a third of the people who get the shots against HIV. Then the doom-mongers weighed in : without more information, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Study: Patients Suffer When Surgeons are Tired

  
  Lean Insider — Authority: 121
  I’ve written before about efforts to limit the numbers of hours doctors (or at least medical residents) are required to work. But because all of today’s doctors went through residencies that required long hours, it is difficult to convince them there is anything wrong with the system. I noted that the New ...
  3 weeks ago

• FDA Should Make Drug Efficacy And Safety Information More Accessible To Patients

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 112
  Package Inserts Prepared By Drug Companies Which Exagerrate Benefits And Downplay Risks Need To Be Addressed (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) In the October 21, 2009 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) there is a Perspective piece, “Lost in ...
  3 weeks ago

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