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Statinators spill the beans
Oftentimes people become so fixed in their thinking – and in their belief that everyone else thinks the same way – that they unwittingly raise the curtain and expose the wizard of their flawed...
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Pity the poor lipophobes and statinators. Theyve just taken another grievous wound to their favorite theory and havent even got sense enough to know it. In fact, not only do they not have sense...
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The pitiful state of medical ignorance
In 1976 the classic film Network starred Peter Finch as crazed anchorman Howard Beale who launched into his now-famous rant Im mad as hell… on air and galvanized movie goers everywhere. Even though...
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Statins and diabetes
In the Jan 9, 2012 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine in the Online First section an article appeared showing that women studied as part of the Women’s Health Initiative who were on statin drugs...
View ArticleStatins: Not for everyone…maybe not for anyone
Part 2 of the Heart of the Matter aired last night in Australia. And not without a lot of courage on the part of ABC and Dr Maryanne Demasi, who conceived of and put the show together. This program,...
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Statin madness
The statin madness infecting the greater part of the tribe of physicians has finally reached out and touched me personally. We all hear horror stories about all kinds of occurrences, but, although we...
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Hell hath no fury like a statinator scorned
It looks like the statinators are sharpening their knives. Apparently the Catalyst shows from a month or so ago have had an effect and it was one the statinators, who felt they didnt get equal time,...
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Absolute risk versus relative risk: Why you need to know the difference
Six years ago, the airwaves were alive with Lipitor ads. Lipitor, a statin and the largest selling drug in the world at that time, was being challenged by other less expensive statins that had gone...
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