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		<title>The Healthy Skeptic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it’s the opening anecdote that draws you into a book. In the introduction of The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the HYPE about your Health, author Robert J. Davis describes a youthful encounter that jump-started his own quest for truth. It was the early years of the low-fat-diet-for-all heart disease prevention message to the public.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1195&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Anyone Taking Zetia or Vytorin?</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/10/01/why-is-anyone-taking-zetia-or-vytorin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no proof that Zetia can do anything beyond lowering cholesterol—no evidence that it can reduce heart attacks or cardiovascular disease, which, of course, is the ultimate goal. Once again, this blockbuster drug sold alone or as a combination medicine has produced negative clinical trial results. This time it failed to provide any benefit to people with heart-valve disease. Worse, there were more cancers and cancer deaths among the drug-treated participants than in those taking a placebo, though these findings are described as “due to chance.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1183&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chantix: Another FDA Failure?</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/06/01/chantix-another-fda-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an inveterate FDA watcher like me it was an interesting spring. First, the agency's failure to police the safety of imported medical products became front-page news when it was revealed that batches of the blood-thinner heparin caused fatal allergic reactions because of contaminated ingredients imported from China. Coming on top of the lead-painted children’s toy and poisoned pet food episodes of a year earlier, the incident confirmed that the FDA lacked sufficient resources to carry out the requisite inspections of overseas manufacturers under its jurisdiction.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1154&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failed Vytorin Study Raises Questions About Cholesterol</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/02/01/failed-vytorin-study-raises-questions-about-cholesterol/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/02/01/failed-vytorin-study-raises-questions-about-cholesterol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A firestorm of bad publicity erupted over cholesterol drugs last month when an expensive combination drug proved to be no better than an older drug alone. This finding was suppressed for 20 months by Merck and Schering-Plough, the two companies that make Vytorin, which is a one-pill combination of Zetia and Zocor. Their two-year trial failed to prove that Vytorin is better than Zocor alone for slowing plaque accumulation; instead atherosclerosis worsened in those taking Vytorin.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1124&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restless Legs Syndrome: Two Heavily Promoted Drugs</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2007/09/01/restless-legs-syndrome-two-heavily-promoted-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very likely you never heard of restless leg syndrome (RLS) before 2003. That’s when Glaxo-SmithKline launched a media campaign to promote awareness of this condition that the company described as “underdiagnosed.” Not incidentally, two years later Glaxo’s drug Requip received FDA approval for the treatment of RLS. The drug was already on the market as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1114&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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