Health News Update #525

Posting Date: 01/08/2005

Inflammation is emerging as one of the most important factors

influencing a person's risk of heart attack. We find out about new

research on how statin cholesterol-lowering drugs affect an

inflammatory marker, C-reactive protein, and the risk of heart attack.

We also discuss the FDA's difficulties with Vioxx and other drugs, and

learn why grape juice is good for you.

Guests: Paul Ridker, MD, Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical

School and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

at the Brigham & Women?s Hospital; Jerry Avorn, MD, associate

professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the

Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and

Women?s Hospital; Jane Freedman, MD, associate professor of medicine

and pharmacology at Boston University's School of Medicine.

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