I also have muscle weakness from cholesterol-lowering drug - Re the Case Study in WDDTY vol 12 no 11, I too have had problems with simvastatin. I am 40 years old and have familial high cholesterol.

Cholesterol drug no better than placebo-specialist - Pravastatin, the cholesterol lowering drug, is no better than placebo, a leading heart specialist has concluded. For every case of heart attack the d...

Muscle weakness with statins deserves a black-box warning - Two correspondents - in WDDTY vol 12 no 11 and vol 13 no 3 - reported muscle weakness after taking simvastatin. Statins block the body’s synthesis of...

Statins: the only safe dose to reduce muscle weakness risk - Doctors firmly believe cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are a good thing. But too much of a ‘good thing’ can harm you – and even kill you, say scien...

Acute respiratory distress: long-term muscle weakness after hospital t - Survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may breathe easier after being in hospital, but a Canadian study shows that persistent muscle...

A new anti heart attack regime - The new evidence debunking cholesterol lowering isn't license to tuck into bacon and chips every day. As a number of writers demonstrate, the problem...

Heart attack: deadly drugs - Heart attack patients given antiarrhythmic (irregular heartbeat) drugs are more likely to die. ...

Cholesterol: Drug doesn’t work, suppressed study reveals - The drug companies have been holding out on us again. This time they’ve been caught suppressing evidence about the cholesterol-lowering drug Zetia (e...