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SOS: Sanity over Statins – CTT the house of statin secrets
Should a professional body, however eminent, be allowed to keep information about the safety of products they are supplying to public hidden so no one else can run tests on them? (Read more...)Author...
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Statin advice from the Wizard of Oz
There is a whiff of the Wizard of Oz about the advice on statins that we’ve been getting for years. It comes in the form of ringing pronouncements from behind a curtain that all is well... (Read...
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Eminence based medicine defends the status quo on statins
Last week I was called by a friend who opened the conversation by saying: "So you were wrong about statins." He was referring to the correction that the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has had to make in...
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The statins wars: Another round and maybe some clarity
Don’t prescribe statins to any more people. That’s the clear message from a strongly worded open letter to the head of NICE and to the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt published today. If you groan at the...
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Five worrying questions about statins
So several million more people are going to be prescribed statins but the vigorous campaign to inject some sanity into statin use has bought into sharp focus the conflict of interests at the heart of...
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Statin flash: 10 reasons to say no + statistical fiddling spotted
Arriving at the debate on statins run by the Guild of Health Writers last week , I was very amused to discover that the redoubtable Professor Sir Rory Collins, arch champion of statins for-all and...
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Statin wars: New episode. The Empire Strikes back
If you aren’t confused about what is going on with statins then you haven’t been paying attention. As an example of just how convoluted it’s getting, take the email forwarded to me last week that had...
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Statin wars: You thought it was about the evidence – Chief Scientific Advisor...
Regular readers of the “Statin Wars” soap that we’ve been following here for several months will be eager to know the result of the survey sent to members of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS)...
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Sons of statin: How the new arrivals narrowly missed disaster
Last month two new cholesterol lowering drugs stepped into the limelight at AHA’s (American Heart Association) annual conference. Neither is likely to make it to market until the end of next year but...
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Keep statin supremo away from the missing side-effect data
The statin saga – do they help or harm? – took a fascinating new turn on Sunday when statin supremo Professor Sir Rory Collins confessed to the Express that he hadn’t actually done the analysis needed...
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How senior medics use strong arm tactics to close down the debate on statin...
One of the alarming and intriguing things about the cholesterol lowering drugs statins is the vigour and ferocity with which supporters defend them. It’s alarming because it makes it almost impossible...
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The serious trust deficiency afflicting medical advice and what to do about it
Trust me I’m a doctor has become a knowing, cynical catch-phrase but the underlying truth is that we do need to trust our doctors, not only because trusted doctors exert a beneficial healing effect but...
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Medicine’s democratic deficit. Time for middle-aged, white, privileged males...
It’s hardly news that things have not been going well for various professional elites lately. Economists so busy promoting the neo-liberal agenda they failed to notice the on-coming depression;...
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The great QOF fiasco. The untold story of the biggest public health...
By Jerome Burne The results of […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for the...
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Latest statin scam | Mis-selling them to pensioners
By Jerome Burne The blog has […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for the...
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Statin Deniers and Anti-Vaxxers. How political rhetoric is infecting medicine
By Jerome Burne Last month I […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for the...
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The claim that the cure for the crippling fatigue of ME/CFS was to change...
By Jerome Burne In September 2016 […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for...
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Citizen researchers: fighting for truth about treatments
By Jerome Burne Rufus Greenbaum, a […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for...
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