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		<title>Report Side-Effects of Statin Drugs</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2006/11/01/report-side-effects-of-statin-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very existence of this study is tacit acknowledgment of deficiencies both in the FDA drug approval process and in its post-market surveillance system. Drug trials are designed to prove a benefit and typically do not provide a full picture of harm. Add to the mix the fact that most statin drugs are taken by older people. Many report to Dr. Golomb that their doctors attribute such problems as joint pain and memory deficits to aging and do not consider the possibility of statin side effects.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1004&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statins: Low chance of Benefit</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2006/07/01/statins-low-odds-of-benefit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you go on long-term statin drug therapy if you knew that the odds are one in 23,000 that the drug will save you from a cardiac death? How about one in 198? And are you prepared to stay on that drug for the rest of your life, though the full story on the drug’s harms is yet to be known?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=999&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Benefit Women?</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2004/06/01/do-cholesterol-lowering-drugs-benefit-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 23:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many doctors have come to believe that the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins (Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Mevacor, Crestor) are safer than low-dose daily aspirin. That becomes apparent whenever statins are featured in the media as a wonder drug for the prevention of heart disease. In fact, there's a growing consensus among cardiologists that all adults should take a statin whether or not they are at high risk.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=836&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cardiologists Poised to Give Everyone Lipitor</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2004/04/01/cardiologists-poised-to-give-everyone-lipitor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2004 22:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The findings were considered to be so important that The New England Journal of Medicine made the study freely available on its Web site one month earlier than the April 8 publication date. Two cholesterol-lowering statin drugs—Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin)—were compared in a clinical trial that involved 4,162 people who had been hospitalized for a sudden attack of chest pain due to heart disease. Lipitor proved to be more effective at reducing the rate of deaths from heart disease, heart-related problems and the need for procedures, such as bypass surgery and angioplasty. Once the news caught media attention, the reporting made the benefit appear larger than it is.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=829&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statins Drugs: How Safe? How Effective?</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2003/11/01/statins-drugs-how-safe-how-effective/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2003/11/01/statins-drugs-how-safe-how-effective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[statin risks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statins are intended as a lifelong treatment. Any drug taken by a healthy person every day for the rest of his or her life should be backed with clear evidence from carefully conducted studies that the benefits outweigh the risks. Such studies should have included people just like you, be they older women whose only risk factor is high cholesterol or middle-aged men with high cholesterol and several other risk factors for heart disease.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=815&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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