Side-effect alert for all statin users
At last, new health warnings are to be issued about statins. Can you believe that more than 6m adults in the UK (that’s over 12% of our adult population) are on these very lucrative drugs? (Lipitor...
View ArticleWorried about cholesterol and/or statins
The vast majority of comments I get on my blogs are about cholesterol and/or statins. I find myself saying the same things over and again, so this post is the one that I’ll now refer queries to – it...
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Fancy swallowing a gastric balloon?
Gastric balloons were the big story last week. I was just setting off for a couple of days away (January 21st 2014) when Sky News caught my eye. What should have been a news item was in fact an advert...
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Mass medication and the real choice to be made
Last week, a report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre was published. It was widely reported by the media with the headline “Nearly 50% take prescription drugs”. The figures were...
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Polypharmacy – time to cut drugs!
On May 13th (2015), an excellent initiative was launched with an article in the BMJ. The authors were: Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist; Dr Daniel Maughan, a fellow of the Royal College of...
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A GPs view of mass medication
Following this story last week, I am delighted to say that we have a GP writing this week’s note to give an at-the-coal-face insight into this topic. Dr Joanne McCormack wrote on my blog last year,...
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Three revelations about statins
I posted last Monday’s note about National Cholesterol Month as a blog and it has already been shared more than any other blog I have written. It also attracted many blog comments, which fall into...
View ArticlePCSK9 Inhibitors & Statins
Statin side effects pave the way for son of statins… Introduction In May 2014, two doctors were maliciously attacked by a researcher. The researcher heads up the Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU) at...
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