Recent learnings about blood pressure & meds
Executive summary * This week’s note shares my recent learnings, which came from helping a friend to better understand blood
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Medications
Top 10 blockbuster drugs
Introduction I recently needed to look up how much the main statin, Lipitor, had earned during its lifetime. This led
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Is depression related to serotonin?
Executive summary * This week’s note is important. It received media coverage, but it does not appear to have changed
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JCVI conflicts of interest
Executive summary * On February 16th, 2022, the UK Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) issued a statement to
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Efficacy, NNT & Safety
Executive summary * Some people don’t feel comfortable with numbers, but numbers are vital for making informed health decisions.
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Semaglutide & weight loss
Executive Summary Introduction An obesity drug remains one of the biggest opportunities for pharmaceutical companies, but it has proved to
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HRT & blood clots
Introduction Women in the UK woke up to scary headlines on January 10th 2019. The Daily Mail informed us that
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Antidepressants and weight gain
On 23rd May 2018, an article was published in the BMJ entitled “Antidepressant utilisation and incidence of weight gain during
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Statins: at what age?
1st August 2017 would have been a confusing day for anyone reading all the UK papers. The Telegraph front page
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Evolocumab – NICE guidelines – a reply
On 17th May 2017, I received a reply to the letter set out in this post. “Dear Zoe Thank you
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