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Statins are not evil

by Stephen on 2009/11/16

One of the classes of drugs that all doctors are sure have saved many lives are the statins, used for lowering cholesterol. Drugs with names like lovastatin, pravastatin, Crestor and Lipitor have been shown to be effective treatment for patients with coronary disease, and have shown over many trials lasting many years a substantial benefit [...]

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Vitamin of the coming decade?

by Stephen on 2009/10/30

Over years lots of vitamins have been proposed as the best thing and something everybody should have more of. In the 60′s and 70′s vitamin C was the “in” vitamin. Anybody that had the temerity to have have slight sniffle or cough would be assailed from several directions with “You should take some vitamin C”.  As both [...]

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