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Old Drugs, new tricks!

by Stephen on 2010/12/30

The drug metformin has been around since the early sixties. Whilst it has been prescribed since that time in the UK and Europe, misplaced concerns about serious side effect of a similar now discontinued drug prevented it being prescribed in the USA until the last decade. Metformin has been shown to reduce cardiovascular mortality compared [...]

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So now you can take statins!

by Stephen on 2010/12/16

If statins didn’t cause liver problems would you take one? Statins are the commonly prescribed drugs that reduce coronary disease and death rates by about a third by lowering cholesterol. They are also used in the treatment of the acute coronary syndrome both in the acute heart attack and prior to intervention with stents. If [...]

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