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• Bad Health Care Reform Could Limit Your Access to Life Saving Drugs

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 628
  It’s important to understand that some of the monumental legislation being pondered by the present Administration will have real-world effects on things that might seem totally unrelated. Readers must understand that landmark, and rushed, legislation may very well directly affect them even when they think it ...
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• Bad Health Reform Could Limit Your Access to Life-Saving Drugs

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  It’s important to understand that some of the monumental legislation being pondered by the present Administration will have real-world effects on things that might seem totally unrelated.  Readers must understand that landmark, and rushed, legislation may very well directly affect them even when they think it ...
  2 days ago

• No Link Found Between Statins and Risk of Advanced AMD (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Statin use is not associated with risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration, researchers found.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Aspirin ‘cuts risk of sight loss’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  London, Dec 2 (ANI): Taking aspirin can significantly reduce the risk of sight loss, says a new research.In the study, scientists found that people who took the pill every other day saw their risk of developing age-related macular degeneration reducing.Boffins believe they have found an association between the ...
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• Cholesterol Lowering Drugs

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 139
  The first line of treatment in lowering cholesterol levels are lifestyle changes such as proper diet, weight loss, and exercise. Along with lifestyle change, your doctor is also likely to prescribe medication to help in lowering and maintaining your cholesterol levels. A number of prescription drugs to lower ...
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• Crestor – TV commercial

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 154
  Description: A man talks on-screen about the dangers of high cholesterol that may cause plaque buildup. He then invites viewers to visit Arterytour.com to get additional information via their... Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
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• Crestor – Arterytour.com site

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 154
  Learn about high cholesterol and plaque buildup. Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
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• Crestor – Building your life TV commercial

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 154
  Description: People from different walks of life talk about cholesterol and how much they thought they knew about it and in reality they dont. A spokesperson then comes in and talks about the... Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
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• Crestor – Building your life TV commercials

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 154
  Description: A woman talks about how plaque built up in her arteries while building up her life. This is illustrated with live-action footage of that patient at different times of her adult life. The... Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
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• Vytorin – print ad

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 154
  There are 2 sources of cholesterol. Food & Family. Only Vytorin treats both Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
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• You want some Co Q 10 with that statin?

  
  WeeksMD — Authority: 135
  Dr. Weeks Comment:   In 1989 the patent (see below) was filed which demonstrated the importance of never prescribing a statin drug without also prescribing Co Q 10.   So, tell me, why didn’t your your doctor tell you to take Co Q 10 when he or she was handing out statin drugs like candy? “  1. A ...
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• Impactiviti Daily 112009

  
  Impactiviti blog — Authority: 113
  TODAY’S NEWS So, have we been pursuing the wrong course for GERD all this time ? Is it actually caused by immune system cells, not stomach acid? Maybe cheap/old/tried-and-true really is better. Diuretics for HPB , for instance. Or just plain generic simvastatin for cholesterol . Pfizer gets good news on ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Statinator Paradox

  
  The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. — Authority: 476
  Pity the poor lipophobes and statinators.  They’ve just taken another grievous wound to their favorite theory and haven’t even got sense enough to know it.  In fact, not only do they not have sense enough to realize they’ve taken the hit, they’re actually crowing about it. The current issue of the Journal of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vitamin B Niacin Offers No Additional Benefit To Statin Therapy In Seniors Already Diagnosed With Coronary Artery Disease

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 695
  The routine prescription of extended-release niacin, a B vitamin (1,500 milligrams daily), in combination with traditional cholesterol-lowering therapy offers no extra benefit in correcting arterial narrowing and diminishing plaque buildup in seniors who already have coronary artery disease, a new vascular imaging ...
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• Niacin Benefits Mixed in Atherosclerotic Disease

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 469
  Niacin, the B vitamin, may only provide protective benefits in a select group of patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease. This conclusion is based on the somewhat conflicting results of 2 studies, both of which were presented at the ongoing Scientific...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
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• Bugs, Drugs and Patents

  
  Bio Job Blog — Authority: 418
  I suspect that many of you (after reading the title of this post) might be expecting another rant about the need for new antibiotics to treat infections caused by multiple drug resistant strains of bacteria. Sorry to disappoint you because that isn’t what this post is about. After reading and listening to several ...
  2 weeks ago

• Niacin beats statin drug – head to head. Cheaper and more effective and safer!

  
  WeeksMD — Authority: 135
  Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Watch out America. The FDA is about to take away your niacin.  This vitamin B3, famous for its “flush” was  championed by Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D. Ph.D.   1917-2009 in the treatment of people suffering with hallucinations and delusions (adrenochrome toxicity treated with niacin) and also ...
  2 weeks ago

• More bad news for the makers (and takers) of cholesterol-reducing drug ezetimibe (Zetia)

  
  Dr John Briffa's Blog — Authority: 460
  Previously, I have written about the drug combination of simvastatin and ezetimibe (sold as Vytorin in the US). Both of these drugs reduce cholesterol, but through different mechanisms. Taken together, these drugs do do a good job of reducing cholesterol levels And we all know that the lower we get the cholesterol ...
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• Study raises new questions about Merck pill Zetia

  
  Entertainment News, Sports News, Celebrity News, African American Culture & Community News and Events - Bilal Ali Productions — Authority: 154
  A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin — drugs that are still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol , despite questions raised last year about how well they work. In the study, Zetia failed to shrink buildups in artery walls while a rival drug, Niaspan, did so ...
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