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FDA admits approved dose of this statin can kill you

June 22, 2011

FDA admits approved dose of this statin can kill you

By Michele Cagan on 06/19/2011

The FDA just admitted that the 80mg dose of simvastatin (which is also still sold under a brand name) can hurt — even kill — you.

In fact, they’re telling docs not to prescribe that dose anymore… except for people that are already taking it.

Turns out that taking 80mg of simvastatin daily, a commonly prescribed and FDA-approved dosage, can cause very serious health problems:

  • Rhabdomyolysis (which quickly destroys the skeletal muscles)
  • Kidney damage, and
  • Potentially fatal kidney failure            Keep Reading
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Big Pharma Paying Off Docs to Push Drugs [Infographic]

June 13, 2011

Big Pharma Paying Off Docs to Push Drugs [Infographic]

By Alice Wessendorf on 06/13/2011 Doctors on Drugs


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Death by Doctor

June 8, 2011

Death by Doctor

By Bette Dowdell on 06/06/2011

I ran into an acquaintance at a conference a while back. We got to talking about vitamins. (Somehow I always end up talking about vitamins; I could bore a stone.)

Doctors recently installed her second pacemaker. She said her ejection fraction–the force with which her heart pumps blood–was ten. Normal is fifty and north; zero is dead.

Lunch came with the conference, and my exhausted, skinny-minny friend wondered if she dared eat anything since the doctor told her to avoid salt.

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