[JEV News, January 27, 2012] Pharmaceutical companies always love to expand their claims on the usefulness of their chemicals, or so-called drugs. Statin drugs, which are heavily used to reduce serum cholesterol, are no exception. During the last decade, through medical experts, pharmaceutical companies have continued their attempts to claim that statin drugs are helpful…
In today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill podcast show, I am going to discuss Alzheimer’s disease and Carbohydrates with you. Alzheimer’s disease has been one of the diseases, which occur during one’s later life, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, cancer, and more. From the pathophysiological perspective, these diseases have been considered as a result of aging…
[JEV News, August 5, 2011] In the August 3, 2011 online issue of Wall Street Journal, Pfizer Inc. was reportedly looking for a possibility of selling a new version of its best-selling cholesterol-lowering drug, Lipitor, for buying over the counter without prescription. The patent for Liptor will be expired in November 2011. The move by…
In the September 16, 2010 issue of New York Times, Dr. Pauline W. Chen wrote a weekly blog, “Teaching Doctors About Nutrition and Diet.” Dr, Chen is a liver transplant and cancer surgeon with the Department of Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles. In her blog, she confessed to her uneasiness each and every time…
Recently, Pfizer was reportedly granted by the European Union to produce chewable form of Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug. The chewable Lipitor is for children who are 10 years old and over and have high levels of LDLs and triglycerides, supposedly an inherited disease or familial hypercholesterolemia. [1] In 2002, Pfizer won approval of using Lipitor…
