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Kill or cure?

This is too funny. A website called Kill or Cure? has been compiling links to science stories in The Daily Mail (UK) and their apparent "ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it". A sni ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Sep 24 2009 - 3:46pm - 0 attachments

Gene Discoveries And Heart Disease - Setting Realistic Expectations

... whether to initiate primary prevention treatments such as statins. There is an urgent need for clinical trials to examine this potential ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2009 - 10:45am - 0 attachments

Fatostatin Molecule Is Turnoff For Fat-Making Genes

... back to gene expression." Unlike cholesterol-lowering statins in use today, which block a single enzyme in the pathway, the chemical, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2009 - 1:31pm - 0 attachments

Swine Flu Pandemic Worry? Generic Inflammation Drugs Could Work Fine In Many Cases

... anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory agents such as statins, fibrates and glitazones could help to regulate the cell signalling ... tissue repair, immunity and normal tissue function. “Statins are commonly used to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease - but ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2009 - 7:15pm - 0 attachments

Statins For Lower Cholesterol May Also Prevent Alzheimer's

... disease so cholesterol lowering drugs, including statins, developed in recent years may help with both. In addition to the cholesterol reducing effect of statins Amalia Dolga, PhD, of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2009 - 2:00am - 0 attachments

How Dangerous is LDL Cholesterol?

... It’s impossible to have too low an LDL concentration. Statins in the drinking water. You know the patter. The scientific ...

Blog Post - Seth Roberts - Dec 19 2008 - 8:37am - 0 attachments

Harry And Louise, Meet Rogerio And Bosso

The president wants to transform healthcare with new laws and new technology, but once upon a time, a moral bond ruled between patient and physician. Recently, I experienced something so rare in American medicine that it often catches people up ...

Article - Greg Critser - Jun 28 2009 - 11:30pm - 0 attachments

Building A Straw Man Out Of Red Herrings.

A recently released British film The Age of Stupid , uses good science to good effect in a projection of a possible future.  The theme is that if we do nothing about global climate change, then we are not living in an age of reason, but in an ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 9 2009 - 7:08pm - 0 attachments

Inhaling A Heart Attack

... of heart disease after 25 years of cholesterol management, statins and endless lifestyle advice. On collecting the mice several weeks ...

Article - Greg Critser - Jun 23 2009 - 11:23am - 0 attachments

Heart Disease Treatment Breakthrough

... deaths in women[2]. The four million people who take statins to help lower their cholesterol and chances of suffering a heart attack ... from using Ateronon. The product can be taken alongside statins. Although cholesterol does put people at risk of suffering a heart ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 1 2009 - 6:00am - 0 attachments