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Women Who Take Lipitor® May See No Healthy Results


Women spend billions of dollars each year on Lipitor and other statin drugs that lower cholesterol. Now a new study of all the research data associated with this drug raises serious questions as to whether or not the all of this cash is buying any healthy benefits.
Sales of Lipitor account for over $12 billion in [...]

Anti-Smoking Medication Grounded. Chantix® Disallowed for Pilots, Controllers!


The anti-smoking drug Chantix from Pfizer, Inc., has been steeped in controversy since it came on the market in 2006. It has been the subject of U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisories due to reports of Chantix-induced dreams, attempted suicides and at least one death. Now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered any pilots [...]

Ibuprofen and Aspirin Interaction Raises Risk of Heart Attack


Patients with a high cardiovascular risk taking both ibuprofen and aspirin are nine times more likely suffer a heart attack, according to research led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
The research compared the cardiovascular health of 18,523 osteoarthritis patients over 50 years of age who were all taking high doses of one [...]