Evolocumab – NICE guidelines
The Telegraph covered my findings here. This is a copy of an email, which I have just sent to the
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Cholesterol
Statins, PCSK9s, diabetes and heart disease
There were two interesting statin stories this week. On Friday March 17th 2017, the front page of the UK Express
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A red meat meta-analysis
On 28th November 2016, this article, “In Defence of Red Meat”, suggested that you should: “Ask for a meta-analysis of
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Dear Professor Rory Collins
Following the publication of this paper in The Lancet , I wrote to Professor Rory Collins for his evidence. I have done
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)
While I was in South Africa, at the Professor Tim Noakes hearing, Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) came up both home and
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CEBM – Centre for Evidentially Biased Medicine
A friend pointed this post out to me, which I would not have seen otherwise, as this would not be a
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The Lancet Statin Study
On Friday 9th September 2016, an article was published in The Lancet with a quite extraordinary editorial. The full article
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The computer says “take statins”!
The shock story of last week broke on 11th May (2016). The UK GP magazine, Pulse, reported that The Medicines
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PCSK9 Inhibitors & Statins
Statin side effects pave the way for son of statins… Introduction In May 2014, two doctors were maliciously attacked
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Vitamin D Deficiency
US Guidelines In 2010, at the time of writing my obesity book, the US did not have a “Dietary Reference
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