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vitamins

Image via Wikipedia Time was taking a daily multivitamin pill was a sign that you were looking after yourself and trying to improve your health. More and more research though has shown that the addition of most vitamins in the majority of otherwise healthy people is not only not useful it may actually be dangerous. [...]

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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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