Primary prevention with lipid lowering drugs and long term risk of vascular...
Objective To determine the association between use of lipid lowering drugs statin or fibrate in older people with no known history of vascular events and long term risk of coronary heart disease...
View ArticleHealth Tip Avoiding Leg Cramps
Painful leg cramps can happen to anyone but tend to be common among seniors.The AARP recommendsGently stretch and flex the leg to ease a cramp.Ask your doctor if a medication such as a statin or...
View ArticleAmgen Receives Positive CHMP Opinion For Use Of Repatha Evolocumab For The...
THOUSAND OAKS Calif. May 22 2015 PRNewswire Amgen NASDAQ AMGN today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use CHMP of the European Medicines Agency EMA has adopted a positive...
View ArticleStatins Linked to Diabetes and Complications in Healthy Adults
Statin use was linked to an increased risk for diabetes diabetes complications and overweightobesity according to a retrospective cohort study examining a primaryprevention population for 6.5 years....
View ArticleStatins Inhibit Vitamin K2 and Stimulate Hardening of the Arteries...
OSLO NORWAY and METUCHEN NJ Marketwired 052615 Few consumers read Expert Review Clinical Pharmacology but NattoPharma makers of MenaQ7Â Vitamin K2 as MK7 feels a new paper published in the March issue...
View ArticleAmarin Corporation plc AMRN Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Deals and Alliances...
Recently added to the BioPortfolio report storeAmarin Corporation plc AMRN Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Deals and Alliances Profile is a new report fromGlobalData published on 20150408.This...
View ArticleMost Dutch PrimaryPrevention Patients Skip Statins
The researchers shocked by the low rate of adherence among those eligible for statin therapy emphasized that in addition to new CVD drugs doctors must ensure patients are taking the medications already...
View ArticlePD1 inhibitors head latest crop of CHMP opinions
Eight new drugs were recommended for approval at the CHMP's latest meeting with cancer immunotherapies from Merck & Co and BristolMyers Squibb BMS headlining.Merck's Keytruda pembrolizumab was...
View Article20 Years of Medscape Reflection Innovation and Celebration
NEW YORK May 28 2015 PRNewswire &160;Leading medical experts reflected on the most significant innovations and medical breakthroughs over the past two decades and made bold predictions about the...
View ArticleStatins Questionable for Elderly Men Without Heart Disease
For men older than 70 years the reduction in risk for a first major cardiovascular event with statin use is not significant a retrospective study has shown. Medscape Medical News
View ArticleFasting Triglycerides Predict CVD Risk in StatinTreated Patients
Investigators say they saw an increased cardiovascular risk among patients with even "minimally abnormal" triglyceride levels those in the 130175mgdL range when compared with...
View ArticleStrongest StatinDiabetes Link Yet Not so Fast Say Some Experts
Out of 26000 healthy people those taking statins to control cholesterol were a striking 87 percent more likely to become diabetic said a recent Journal of General Internal Medicine database study.
View ArticleDoes Preop Statin Help Survival in CABG
MedPage Today Study suggested simvastatin may help but other preop heart drugs weren't useful.
View ArticleSynthetic Biologics to Host Microbiome Analyst & Investor Meeting
ROCKVILLE Md. June 1 2015 PRNewswire Synthetic Biologics Inc. NYSE MKT SYN a clinicalstage company focused on developing therapeutics to protect the microbiome while targeting pathogenspecific diseases...
View ArticleWoodford gets behind £20mln Oxford Pharmascience fundraiser
Oxford Pharmascience LONOXP has raised £20mln from investors after initially targeting just £5mln.The funds will be used to drive the development of its OXPzero Aspirin a version of the painkiller...
View ArticleSynthetic Biologics Expands Clinical & Regulatory Leadership Team with...
ROCKVILLE Md. June 2 2015 PRNewswire &160;Synthetic Biologics Inc. NYSE MKT SYN a clinicalstage company focused on developing therapeutics to protect the microbiome while targeting pathogenspecific...
View ArticleThe Case of the Patient With Myalgia on Every Statin
How would you manage the patient who reports muscle aches with every statin Test yourself with this case challenge. Medscape Internal Medicine
View ArticleCholesterol Drugs May Boost Outcomes After Bypass
TUESDAY June 2 2015 A new study suggests that the widely used anticholesterol drugs known as statins may have another benefit Cutting the odds for death in the weeks and months after heart bypass...
View ArticleRisk factors Diabetes fractures and mortalitystatin therapy
Fractures are associated with increased mortality in the general population. Now a new study from a Danish national database has examined mortality after a fracture in patients with diabetes mellitus....
View ArticleSynthetic Biologics Presents Initial Data Validating Platform Expansion to...
ROCKVILLE Md. June 3 2015 PRNewswire Synthetic Biologics Inc. NYSE MKT SYN this week presented initial data that support the Company's development of a platform of therapeutics designed to protect the...
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