Posts Tagged ‘drugs’

The AIM-HIGH study: Perhaps No Benefit to Medically Increasing your HDL level

As a health-conscious individual you already know you need to work to reduce your LDL, via lifestyle change perhaps supplemented with a statin drug, and at the same time increase your HDL, referred to as Good cholesterol, which aids in getting bad, LDL cholesterol out of your circulatory system without leading to  plaque blockages. News has come [...]

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Why isn’t there a safe weight-loss pill? – CNN.com

Drugs continue to be of no great help in producing long term weight loss.  Specifically, Orlistat/Alli isn’t resulting in profitable success even though it’s been used by millions of people.  GlaxoSmithKline is looking to sell off the product as an under-performer financially.  Feel the burn there — not that it’s an underperformer medically, but that [...]

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