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Statins may provide doctors with an unlikely new weapon with which to slow the ... the Department of Medicine at Imperial. "Discovering that statins can help slow that deterioration is quite a surprise. This is a promising finding, particularly as statins are already cheap and widely used. "We need to do a bigger study ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2014 - 9:22pm - 0 attachments

Dr. James Hamblin at The Atlantic takes a skeptical look at the recent demonizing of gluten and grain and sugars and renewed calls for something resembling a paleo diet. I have been beating the gluten-free horse for a while, of course, to much d ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 2 2014 - 5:01pm - 0 attachments

Observational studies have reported that statins improve outcomes of various infections. Ventilator-associated pneumonia ... ventilation. "These findings do not support the use of statins [for] improving VAP outcomes," the authors conclude. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2013 - 5:30am - 0 attachments

The health benefits of low-dose aspirin and omega-3 fatty acids in foods like flax seeds and salmon are touted frequently but the detailed mechanisms involved in their effects are not fully known. A report in Chemistry&Biology says that asp ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2013 - 10:25am - 0 attachments

... Aspergillus terreus that produce cholesterol-lowering statins, or Penicillium brevicompactum and Tolypocladium inflatum , ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2013 - 11:51am - 0 attachments

... for atrial fibrillation; use of aspirin, β-blockers, and statins in coronary artery disease; use of β-blockers in congestive heart failure; and the use of statins in diabetes mellitus.  The authors also observed improvement ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2012 - 11:56am - 0 attachments

... also shows that resistin adversely impacts the effects of statins, the main cholesterol-reducing drug used in the treatment and ... says that a staggering 40 per cent of people taking statins are resistant to their impact on lowering blood LDL. "The bigger ... blood resistin levels may be the cause of the inability of statins to lower patients' LDL cholesterol."  Rashid believes the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2012 - 10:30am - 0 attachments

While Europeans trade blame about the E. coli contamination that has killed 14 people and made hundreds sick , one factoid is left out of most news stories - you're far more likely to get E. coli from food in organic supermarkets, where Europ ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2012 - 10:24pm - 0 attachments

... doctors when weighing risk versus benefit in prescribing statins.  Statins are among the most widely used prescription drugs on the market and ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2012 - 3:30am - 0 attachments

Depression may be an early symptom of Parkinson's disease, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 – May 5, 2007. The study looked at whether people who are taking ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2007 - 8:13pm - 0 attachments