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1. Ranbaxy pays $500M to settle adulterated drugs suit

   ... Ranbaxy came under fire in November 2012 after its generic statin product was contaminated with bits of glass. The company voluntarily ...

   cstuart - 2013-05-14 10:33

2. Perspective: It's not either-or for patients and EHRs

   ... on whether the patches helped. The patient was also on a statin, so I shouldn’t have given clarithromycin. What I am describing ... to suggestions to quit. The patient was also on a statin, so I shouldn’t have given the clarithromycin, and I didn’t do a med ...

   bwalsh - 2013-05-07 10:29

3. Statins may lower risk of death from prostate cancer

   Statin users diagnosed with prostate cancer were less likely to die from the ... or progression of prostate cancer was no different between statin users and nonusers, though. In 2012, Nielsen et al reported in the ...

   cstuart - 2013-05-06 15:38

4. A fanfare for software feats

   ... software that, combined with an EHR, allowed them to explore statin-related clinical events or symptoms that led to statin discontinuation. The software could process up to 40 notes a second ...

   cstuart - 2013-04-18 17:35

5. Canadian diabetes guidelines: Start statins at 40

   ... Body:  The Canadian Diabetes Association recommends statin therapy for patients with diabetes mellitus who are 40 years old or ...

   cstuart - 2013-04-12 09:52

6. Generic statin sampling proves budget friendly

   ... after all. At least, not when the drugs are a generic statin. Sampling fell in disfavor based on research showing that the ... a study based on a hypothetical cohort of patients who were statin naïve, had experienced an MI and were 65 years old. The Markov model ...

   cstuart - 2013-04-10 16:59

7. Most patients tolerate statins in second go-around

   ... More than 90 percent of patients who stop and restart statin therapy tolerated the drug long term. The results, published in the ... find reasons for discontinuation of statins and the role of statin-related clinical events or symptoms. In clinical trials, the rate of ...

   cstuart - 2013-04-01 21:40

8. ‘Statins on steroids’ may increase renal risks

   ... for acute kidney injury within 120 days of beginning statin treatment. Those who received high-dose treatment were 34 percent ... to find an association between acute kidney injury and statin use with high precision,” Dormuth and colleagues wrote. “However, ...

   cstuart - 2013-03-20 15:33

9. JUPITER supports preventive use of Crestor to thwart heart attacks

   ... of Medicine (NEJM) . Essentially, the results show statin use can cut the risk of cardiovascular disease by about half, even if ... tested in JUPITER of treating elevated hsCRP patients with statin therapy could be cost-effective and would be worth further study. In ...

   trimedstaff - 2013-03-20 13:23

10. Cardiac CT Goes for the Gold Standard

    ... will help in more effective risk stratification as well as statin dosing and therapy management. In a field where new advancements ...

    trimedstaff - 2013-03-20 12:21

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