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posted 04/29/2008, comment (1)
Do Statins Lower Your IQ?
That’s a question more and more people in the medical community are beginning to wonder. Anectodotal reports from several prominent physicians and medical centers have surfaced claiming that statins are associated with significant cognitive and memory impairment. In most of the stories, the memory loss was temporary... Read more
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posted 01/23/2008, comment (1)
Ezetimibe: Under the gun
"This is a pretty clear failure. Physicians should now stop using ezetimibe or Vytorin except as a last resort." - Dr. Steven Nissen (Cleveland Clinic, OH) "Dr. Nissen's suggestion about a moratorium on ezitimibe is rather alarmist, given that this was just an imaging study, and an imaging study should not change... Read more
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posted 01/14/2008, comments (0)
Zetia and Your Liver
In December 2007, the New York Times published an article entitled "Data about Zetia risk was not fully revealed." The article claimed that Merck and Schering-Plough, the manufacturers of Zetia (aka ezetimibe), have information pertaining to the risk of liver damage when taking this cholesterol lowering medication in... Read more
posted 12/20/2007, comment (1)
PROHIBITED FOODS
IS THERE ANYTHING TO WHAT I HAVE BEEN HEARING ABOUT NOT EATING GRAPE FRUIT WHILE TAKING LIPTOR?- Font size
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