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Hypertension in Aortic Stenosis: Implications for Left Ventricular...
From the Institute of Medicine , University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Heart Disease , Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; Department of Medicine , Skellefteaa Hospital and Umeaa University, Skellefteaa, Sweden; Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen , Bad Krozingen, Germany; Department of Cardiology , Stavanger University Hospital, ... (more)
AstraZeneca Release: Data Presented at the European...
AstraZeneca Release: Data Presented at the European Atherosclerosis Society Congress Reinforces the Differentiating Benefits of CRESTOR[TM] in Comparison to Atorvastatin and Simvastatin Data presented today from the VOYAGER study demonstrate the benefits of aggressive statin therapy with CRESTOR in comparison to atorvastatin and simvastatin in high ... (more)
Data Presented at the European Atherosclerosis Society Congress...
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The Body Shop | Muscle aches, a side effect of statin drugs, complicates exercise
Statin drugs are used to lower serum cholesterol. They work by going into the liver and blocking key enzymes used in the cholesterol-production process.
Jay W. Marks, MD, is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Statins May Help Prevent Enlarged Prostate: Study
Statin drugs commonly used to lower cholesterol levels may also slow the unhealthy growth of the prostate in men with elevated blood levels of prostate-specific antigen, a new study finds.
Doctors Find Less Need For Abbott's 'Good Cholesterol' Pill
A year after a major study called into question whether prescribing an Abbott Laboratories ' pill designed to raise levels of good cholesterol protected against heart attacks and strokes, doctors are moving away from prescribing the treatment.
Prediction of Drug-Target Interactions and Drug Repositioning via Network-Based Inference
Drug-target interaction is the basis of drug discovery and design. It is time consuming and costly to determine DTI experimentally.
Raising HDL Levels May Not Lower Heart Attack Risk
May 16, 2012 -- It is widely believed that raising "good" cholesterol levels lowers heart attack risk, but surprising new research finds evidence that this may not be the case.
Impact of oral simvastatin therapy on acute lung injury in mice during pneumococcal pneumonia
Recent studies suggest that the reported protective effects of statins against community-acquired pneumonia and sepsis in humans may be due to confounders and a healthy user-effect. To directly test whether statins are protective against Streptococcus pneumoniae, the leading cause of CAP, we examined the impact of prolonged oral simvastatin therapy ... (more)
Pfizer Set To Surge On 3 New Drug Candidates
Lipitor , marketed by Pfizer to reduce blood cholesterol levels, has been the best-selling pharmaceutical of all time, with aggregate sales of over $125 billion and still going.
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Statins May Help Prevent Irregular Heartbeat in Elderly
The widely used class of cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins may help elderly patients with high blood pressure avoid developing atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm abnormality tied to stroke. "Our study found that statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation," said Dr.
Video: Healthline Today | Simvastatin | Mon 05/07/2012
In this segment of Dr. Jim Lenhart's Healthline Today, Dr. Jim discusses the latest research on Simvastatin.
Market Report, "Synthon BV - Strategic SWOT Analysis Review", published
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A cheaper generic Lipitor is coming
Lipitor patients are not just imagining it: the generic version of the popular cholesterol-lowering drug that came out Dec.
Clinical trial targets acute respiratory distress syndrome with cholesterol drug
Queen's University and NUI Galway and are leading a clinical trial to investigate the possibility that statins, a drug commonly used to combat cholesterol, might help patients with acute severe respiratory failure.
Rate of Statin-Linked Muscle Woes Unclear, Study Suggests
It's been long known that people on high doses of statins , cholesterol -lowering medications taken by millions of Americans, are at risk for a rare yet serious muscle condition.
Merck wins patent infringement suit against Mylan
Mylan will be barred from marketing a generic version of a Merck cardiovascular drug until the drug's patent expires, under a court ruling announced Friday.
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