The Stats on Statins: Should Healthy Adults Over 50 Take Them?

Everyone over 50 should take statins to lower their cholesterol, an editorial argued last week in The Lancet . The piece based its recommendation on a meta-analysis of 27 clinical trials published in the same issue that concluded statins significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events in healthy people without posing substantial risks. Subsequent articles heralding ...

Belly fat dangers go beyond weight scale

Stepping on a scale doesn't give the whole picture about your risk of complications from excess belly fat, according to a Statistics Canada study released today.

Docs slower to drop 'black box' drugs, adopt new therapies, when access to drug reps is restricted, reports Journal of ...

EVANSTON, Ill., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- After years of reducing their contact with pharmaceutical sales representatives, physicians now risk an unintended consequence: Doctors who rarely meet with ...

Study Recommends More People Be Given Statins

Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com A new report published in The Lancet states that more people should be given cholesterol-lowering drugs and statins to help decrease the number of strokes and heart attacks. Statins have been known to help people who have a high risk of having a heart attack and a stroke. However, medical professionals have debated medicating healthy people, whether it works and if ...

Why EVERYONE over 50 needs to be taking statins: Cholesterol-busting pills cut risk of heart attack or stroke

A major study by the University of Oxford shows the drugs – usually only given to high-risk patients – provided clear benefits among healthy ones too.