Zoe Harcombe

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Statins with your burger? Better add a pregnancy test too

Written by Zoë on August 13, 2010 - 8 Comments
Categories: Conflict, Media comments

This story came out on 12 August 2010. I follow BBC Health news on Twitter and they announced: “Fast food outlets should consider handing out cholesterol-lowering drugs to combat the effects of fatty food, link here The article opens with: “Fast food outlets should consider handing out cholesterol-lowering drugs to combat the effects of fatty [...]

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Side-effect alert for all statin users

Written by Zoë on November 9, 2009 - 2 Comments
Categories: Conflict, Media comments

At last, new health warnings are to be issued about statins. Can you believe that more than 6m adults in the UK (that’s over 12% of our adult population) are on these very lucrative drugs? (Lipitor alone has brought in $12.9 billion for Pfizer – and still counting!) Twenty years ago, GP’s would only get [...]

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Forget Cholesterol and statins – here’s how you really avoid heart disease

Written by Zoë on September 29, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Media comments, Research

This is a great article by Jerome Burne. If you are interested in this area, I cannot recommend highly enough “The Great Cholesterol Con” by Dr Malcolm Kendrick – funny and extremely logical, it should be compulsory reading for every public health advisor and statin prescriber world-wide. Would it surprise you to know that it [...]

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