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Heart Drug: Back to the drawing board for Pfizer

Drug giant Pfizer is in a panic after its new generation heart drug – designed to raise ‘good’ HDL cholesterol – was blamed for the deaths of 82 participants in a pre-licensing trial. more »

Statins: Heart patients get them after op, but doctors don’t know why

It’s extraordinary just how frequently medicine works with myth rather than fact. One example is the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, which have become one of medicine’s holy grails for pati... more »

Fats: Perhaps they don’t cause heart disease after all

Still on the subject of food and weight, a low carbohydrate/high protein diet – as promulgated by Atkins and others – doesn’t cause heart disease. more »

High Cholesterol: It can protect against heart failure, not cause it, new study finds

And the widespread use of statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs, may have little or no benefit, the same study finds. more »

Heart Drug: It causes major gastric problems

Manufacturers of the heart drug Aldactone (spironolactone) saw sales soar after a study in 2004 found that it helped patients recover after suffering severe heart failure. more »

Heart health naturally

PREVENTION * Take large doses of vitamin C. Linus Pauling believed what he called ‘chronic scurvy’ can be prevented with 3 g/day of vitamin C. Subsequent research has shown that dosage is important.... more »

Electroshock therapy

Atherosclerosis has another sting in its tail. One of the effects of a restricted blood supply to the heart is to cause it to become unstable and go into arrhythmia - heart flutters or atrial fibrilla... more »

How safe is high-dose vitamin c?

Vitamin C appears to be one of the least toxic substances known to man. Four studies involving over 3000 people have tested the effect of 10 g/day and found no ill-effects save loose bowels. However,... more »

The dynocure method

The principal surgical treatment for atherosclerosis is similar to what a plumber does with a blocked drain - it aims to widen the narrowed arteries by angioplasty. Although the process is technically... more »

Atherosclerosis: scurvy in disguise

For more than 50 years, medicine has claimed that a diet high in cholesterol and fat is responsible for coronary artery disease. However, growing evidence shows that heart disease may simply be a mark... more »

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