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		<title>Take a Closer Look at Statin&#8217;s Benefit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current practice of advising healthy adults to go on prolonged drug therapy just got a big boost from a large international trial. It found that people with normal cholesterol can halve their risk for heart attack and stroke by taking the cholesterol-lowering statin drug Crestor (generic name: rosuvastatin). Although at low risk for heart disease, all the participants had high blood levels of C-reactive protein, or CRP, which indicates the presence of inflammation within the artery walls.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1191&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report Side-Effects of Statin Drugs</title>
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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>Vytorin: Yet Another Cholesterol Drug</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2006/02/01/vytorin-yet-another-cholesterol-drug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you follow this wise advice offered by Marcia Angell, MD, in her acclaimed 2004 book, The Truth About Drug Companies, chances are you will have one of the following drugs prescribed by a physician. They are currently advertised heavily to doctors as well as the general public. Not surprisingly, the most aggressively promoted drugs wind up to be the most frequently prescribed…and the most frequently given out as free samples. In many cases, there are lower cost alternatives.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=986&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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