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View ArticleArticle on statin safety makes unproven assertions
With publication of the review article in The LancetÂon 8 September 2016 looking at the efficacy and safety of statin therapy the pressure on GPs to prescribe highintensity statins to lowrisk people...
View ArticleEsperion ESPR Phase 2 Results & Update
On October 13 2016 the Esperion team held a much anticipated conference callto deliver results regarding its ETC1002035 and ETC1002037 clinical trials. Esperion Therapeutics is a company based out of...
View ArticleAHA StatinCVD Drug Interactions Unavoidable But Manageable
MedPage Today Scientific statement highlights dosage guidelines
View ArticleAHA StatinCVD Drug Interactions Often Unavoidable But Manageable
MedPage Today Scientific statement highlights dosage guidelines
View ArticleStatins as primary prevention Helpful or harmful
A friend asked me recently about statins. He takes a statin for primary prevention but is concerned that he has muscle pain and weakness as a side effect. So he posed the question How important is the...
View ArticleBiotech Stocks Worth A Glance Testing Sector Trends
CORAL SPRINGS Florida October 20 2016 PRNewswire For the most part Biotech stocks in general have performed well over the past year or so and appear to be bouncing back from a slump that began in the...
View ArticleStatin DrugDrug Interactions in CV Patients Underappreciated
The two most common drugdrug interactions involving statins are the ones mediated by the cytochrome P450 enzyme system and permeability glycoprotein the researchers write. Heartwire from Medscape
View Article15 takeaways from the AHA statement on drug interactions with statins
Body The American Heart Association AHA recently published a set of recommendations for drug on drug interactions with the use of statins in patients with cardiovascular disease. The following are key...
View ArticleThe current evidence on statin use and prostate cancer prevention are we...
Several observational studies support the hypothesis that statin use reduces the risk of advanced prostate cancer. In this Review the authors discuss molecular mechanisms that might determine this...
View ArticleStatin Use Linked to Increased Parkinson's Risk
Contrary to previous research a new study shows a higher rather than lower risk for Parkinson's disease associated with statins. Medscape Medical News
View ArticleJapanese Team Explores Feasibility of Treating Mesothelioma with Cholesterol...
Researchers say statin drugs may help fight pleural mesothelioma in multiple ways.PRWEB October 28 2016 New cancer research conducted at Nagoya University in Japan suggests that drugs normally used to...
View ArticleOct 28 Cardiology News
Statin drugdrug interactions spironolactone in HFpEF chestpain evaluation calcium supplements and bundled payments for dialysis care are discussed in this week's podcast. theheart.org on Medscape
View ArticleAmgen Highlights Repatha Evolocumab GLAGOV Imaging Study Amongst Data To Be...
THOUSAND OAKS Calif. Oct. 31 2016 PRNewswire Amgen NASDAQAMGN today announced that it will present detailed results from the Phase 3 coronary intravascular imaging trial the GLAGOV GLobal Assessment of...
View ArticleVenebio is Helping Predict Opioid Overdose and Bad Cholesterol
The number of fatal opioid overdoses has skyrocketed in recent years becoming what most public health and law enforcement officials agree is an epidemic.Virginia Bio member Venebio Group thinks it can...
View ArticleIncidence of statinassociated T2DM relatively low
HealthDayFor patients without diabetes the incidence of statinassociated type 2 diabetes mellitus T2DM is relatively low according to research published in the Nov. 1 issue of The American Journal of...
View ArticleShould I take a statin to lower my risk of a heart attack
Most everyone has had the experience of sitting across from a doctor being offered a prescription and walking out the door. Most patients will accept the instructions &8212; maybe ask a few...
View ArticleImproved cholesterol efflux linked to plaque stabilization in statintreated...
A new study of patients treated with intensive statin therapy reveals intracoronary imaging evidence of plaque stabilization associated with improved cholesterol transport and distinct transcriptomic...
View ArticleUpdate of Esperion Therapeutics
About EsperionEsperion Therapeutics is a company based out of Ann Arbor Michigan. Esperion was relaunched by biotech mastermind Roger Newton in May 2008. The company was launched with the intent to...
View ArticleHighintensity statins linked to better survival rates of cardiovascular patients
Stanford University Medical Center A large national study has confirmed the value of highintensity statin treatments for people with cardiovascular disease according to researchers at the Stanford...
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