When Should You Take A Statin The Answer Just Changed.
America&8217;s biggest heart organizations have a message for you You are not just a number. This afternoon the and the American College of Cardiology released new guidelines for when patients...
View ArticleKevinMD's Take November 13 2013
By Kevin M.D.So the big news today is the release of the new lipid guidelines from the American College of Cardiology ACCAmerican Heart Association AHA. It represents a fundamental shift in how we...
View ArticleNew guidelines for preventing heart attack stroke
The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology have issued the first new guidelines in a decade for preventing heart attacks and strokes. Among other things they call for twice as...
View ArticleNew cholesterol guidelines The statin decision lies with patients
The release of theÂnew cholesterol guidelinesÂfrom the ACCAHA is big news. ÂIt represents a fundamental shift in how we prescribe statin drugs. As with many sweeping changes there are some good and...
View ArticleAcute Kidney Injury Shortterm statin therapy for prevention of...
Two recent studies suggest that periprocedural statin administration can prevent contrastinduced acute kidney injury in cardiac patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention and in renal...
View ArticleMerck May Lose Out From New Treatment Guide For Cholesterol
By Don Dion Possible Impact on Merck MRK from New Statin Guidelines New treatment guidelines released by the American Heart Association in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology will...
View ArticleMore Americans Should Be Taking Statins
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com Your Universe OnlineCholesterollowering drugs should be prescribed to about 33 million more Americans according to new guidelines for healthcare providers recently released...
View ArticleOxford Pharmascience heartened by new US cholesterol guidelines
New guidelines in the US on the use of cholesterollowering drugs has been hailed as “fantastic news” for Oxford Pharmascience’s LONOXP Safestat programme.Oxford Pharma...
View ArticleNew guidelines could have far more Americans taking statin drugs for cholesterol
Millions more Americans could end up taking cholesterollowering statin drugs under new recommendations released Tuesday that advocate a dramatic shift in the way doctors assess and treat cardiovascular...
View ArticleLipitor Lawsuits Continue to Mount as Bernstein Liebhard LLP Notes Filing of...
The Firm is now investigating Lipitor lawsuits on behalf of individuals who developed newonset Type 2 diabetes allegedly due to their use of Lipitor.PRWEB November 13 2013 Lipitor lawsuits...
View ArticleCholesterol Guidelines Look High And Low Statin Market Extended At Both Ends
In shifting away from specific targets and nonstatin addon therapies new ACCAHA cholesterol guidelines support treatment of people at relatively low risk for events and more intensive therapy for those...
View ArticleOxford Pharmascience's statin opportunity broadens
The already massive market for Oxford Pharmascience’s LONOXP Safestat formulations of cholesterollowering drugs has become even bigger following new US guidelines on prescriptions N1 Singer...
View ArticleCould Statin Use Double
New guidelines from the US's leading heart organizations could lead to new prescriptions for cholesterollowering drugs.Read more about Could Statin Use DoubleComments
View ArticleNew statin guidelines prompt concerns about the data and about expanded use
Creative CommonsEd UthmanCholesterol crystals in synovial fluid a viscous nonNewtonian fluid found in the cavities of synovial joints.The new cardiovasculardisease treatment guidelines released Tuesday...
View ArticleTop Cardiologist Prefers to Prescribe Magnesium Before Cholesterol Drugs to...
NEW YORK NYMarketwired November 15 2013 In response to a just released doctors' report urging wider use of cholesterol drugs called "statins" one of the nation's top heart specialists says there are...
View ArticleEarly statin therapy helps kids with inherited high cholesterol
American Heart Association Children with inherited high levels of cholesterol who receive cholesterollowering statins in their early years have a lower risk of coronary heart disease than their...
View ArticleShould Statins Be Used for Primary Prevention in Women
Although the randomized clinical trial evidence supporting primary prevention with statin therapy in women is not perfect "the absence of data means negative data" said one expert....
View ArticleAlnylam Presents New Preclinical Data on RNAi Therapeutics for Cardiovascular...
Company Provides Update on ALNPCSsc a Subcutaneously Administered RNAi Therapeutic Targeting PCSK9 Demonstrating up to 95 Knockdown of PCSK9 and up to 67 Reduction of Low Density Lipoprotein...
View ArticleMatinas BioPharma Appoints James S. Scibetta to Board of Directors
BEDMINSTER NJMarketwired November 18 2013 Matinas BioPharma Holdings Inc. an emerging biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of omega3 fatty acidbased prescription...
View ArticleChildren with inherited high cholesterol benefit from early statin therapy
Children with inherited high levels of cholesterol who receive cholesterollowering statins in their early years have a lower risk of coronary heart disease than their affected parents according to...
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