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• Crestor web banner

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 146
  Click here to see it on AdPharm AdPharm is the largest online pharmaceutical advertising gallery. It is subscription-based with various subscriptions plans available here .
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• Is Cellulose the real problem in desiccated thyroid meds for many?

  
  Stop The Thyroid Madness — Authority: 109
  When Forest Labs reformulated Armour earlier this year, they stated they increased the filler Microcrystalline Cellulose, and decreased the Sucrose (sugar). The tablets became impossible to do sublingually , and you have to wonder why they would change a quality that patients praised so heavily.  Positive ...
  4 days ago

• More on statin side effects

  
  The Healthy Skeptic — Authority: 99
  Dr. John Briffa wrote a post worth reading on his blog today about the significant side effects of statin drugs, and the considerable effort pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment spend trying to convince people that these drugs are safe. Sadly, they’ve been largely successful. Some time ago ...
  4 days ago

• Dont panic about statin side-effects

  
  Dear Miriam - Mirror.co.uk — Authority: 141
  Im in no doubt that statins are "miracle" drugs - and thats a term I dont use lightly. In fact, Ive probably only used it about three times in my life - the other two being about penicillin and insulin, drugs that have saved millions of lives worldwide. Thats why Im keen that people dont panic when they hear that ...
  6 days ago

• Statinators spill the beans

  
  The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. — Authority: 400
  Oftentimes people become so fixed in their thinking – and in their belief that everyone else thinks the same way – that they unwittingly raise the curtain and expose the wizard of their flawed thinking, showing it for what it really is.  Statinators have done just that in an article in the current issue of the ...
  1 week ago

• H1N1 Flu Update – Week Ending Nov. 6

  
  Asthma Mom — Authority: 420
  Discover Magazine’s Flu Wars Discover ’s December 2009 issue showed up in my mailbox the other day, on November 4th. Makes total sense. The screwy timing of magazine publishing aside (and that’s not news to anyone who’s ever held a subscription to any publication, I’m sure), check out the illuminating, if ...
  1 week ago

• Crestor

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 146
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• Crestor

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 146
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• Statins Do Not Save Lives in Women

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 153
  Is it possible to highlight how important this fact actually is? But you would never know that from reading anything that is written on the subject. You have to dig and dig.
  1 week ago

• Crestor

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 146
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  1 week ago

• Crestor consumer print ad

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 146
  Click on the image to see the full-sized ad and get all the info on AdPharm. 38 more Crestor ads on AdPharm, click here AdPharm is the largest online pharmaceutical advertising gallery. It is subscription-based with various subscriptions plans available here .
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• UCLA Researchers Reconstitute Enzyme That Synthesizes Cholesterol Drug Lovastatin

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 730
  Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin. The research, published Oct. 23 in the journal Science, could potentially ...
  1 week ago

• FDA’s Safe Use Initiative–think they will listen to our cries about T4-only meds?

  
  Stop The Thyroid Madness — Authority: 109
  As a thyroid patient who was profoundly harmed by the use of Synthroid and Levoxyl in the treatment of my hypothyroidism, and as an activist who sees this same harmful truth with potentially millions of other patients , I find this recent news interesting. But you gotta wonder if they will be wearing noise reduction ...
  1 week ago

• The view from Statin Island

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 579
  FuturePundit finds this factoid in a Reuters story: Overall, 2.1 percent of [H1N1] patients taking statins died, compared to 3.2 percent of patients not taking statins. That means patients taking statins were just under 50 percent less likely to die. Bill Quick questions the math , and reasonably so: 34 and a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Did you know…

  
  HealthPoint PA — Authority: 439
  Did you know that statin use may lower the risk of death from the flu? Reports Reuters: Patients taking statin drugs were almost 50 percent less likely to die from flu, researchers reported on Thursday in a study providing more evidence the cholesterol-lowering drugs help the body cope with infection. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• IDSA: Statins May Lower Risk of Flu Death (CME/CE)

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Chalk up another possible benefit of cholesterol-lowering statins -- they may reduce the chance of dying if you get the flu.
  2 weeks ago

• For The Love of Food

  
  Summer Tomato — Authority: 464
  For The Love of Food Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food , Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup. Lots of great food and health science this week in my top 10, along with the death of the evil Smart Choices food labeling campaign (woohoo!). Also be sure to check out the wonderful Anti-Fast Food article from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Impactiviti Daily 103009

  
  Impactiviti blog — Authority: 540
  TODAY’S NEWS FTC says “yes” to Merck-Schering merger. AstraZeneca’s experimental drug Brilinta may not get along well with aspirin: AstraZeneca Plc is looking into whether greater use of aspirin reduces the effectiveness of its experimental clot-busting medicine Brilinta, which analysts had estimated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can Cholesterol Pills Really Prevent Flu Deaths?

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  That’s what some researchers are suggesting. “Statins may have a role in reducing mortality from influenza, but our findings do not justify broader use of statins without confirming these findings in the setting of randomized controlled trials,” study author Dr. Ann Thomas, from the Emerging Infections Program ...
  2 weeks ago

• Common cholesterol-lowering drug could prevent Parkinson’s progression

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Oct 30 (ANI): A commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug, called simvastatin, can prevent progression of Parkinson’s disease, according to a study by neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center.The study examined the use of the FDA-approved medication in mice with Parkinson’s disease and ...
  2 weeks ago

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