From the Bolen Report... 09-23-05
Ripley, Believe...
The Following Links Are News Articles that The Bolen Report Has Covered During the PAST TWO MONTHS Describing the High Risk of Heart Surgery and Heart Medications ...
Washington Post:More Heart Devices Malfunction...
ABCNews: Study Challenges Heart Attack Treatments...
Johns Hopkins launches study to determine if heart angioplasty is safe ...(Aug 2005. Angioplasty has been used for decades, and doctors don't know whether it is safe?)
Women are nearly twice as likely as men to die from complications of heart bypass surgery...
The nitroglycerin that is given continuously to hospitalized heart attack patients injures the lining of blood vessels... (Sep 2005)
Believe it or not, after 130 years, medicine has decided to final study the use of Nitro for heart patients. "We've simply taken for granted that nitroglycerin is good," said lead author Dr. Jonathan S. Stamler, a cardiologist at Duke University. " Given the findings, reported in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the researchers said it was time to subject the compound to clinical trials of its safety and usefulness.
Popular Plavix® Fails the Test...
The clinical trial for Prevention of Vascular Events program have been discontinued due to a significant difference in efficacy, in favour of the standard oral anticoagulation (OAC) over antiplatelet therapy (clopidogrel (Plavix) plus aspirin).
Pfizer Accupril Has No Benefit After Bypass Surgery-Study...
Heart bypass surgery increases risk of Alzheimer's disease ...
Pfizer Lipitor (Cholesterol-lowering Statin) No Better Than Rivals - Some Cases Side Effects Are Worse-Study
6.2% risk of heart attack and cardiovascular death before and after angioplasty...
Aspirin will not protect against cardiovascular events ...
Genentech Drug Is Not Safe With Angioplasty...
Drug firm says cancer drug can raise heart risk...
Anti-thrombotic therapies used in the last two decades have been associated with a significant increase in bleeding risks and high mortality...New therapies said to be safer for patients...
AMA Warns for Long Time: Cholesterol Drugs Linked to Cancer...
The hazards of heart bypass ...
500,000 develop IV-based infections, 30,000 die...
Pa.: Nearly 12,000 Patients Got Infections in Hospitals...
New Northwestern Memorial Hospital Study Demonstrates Significant Burden Staph Infections Place on Hospitals...
Popular painkillers linked to high blood pressure in women...
Fifty thousand implanted defibrillators recalled due to short circuits ...
Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists...
NSAIDS Routlinely Given to Eash Pain Slow Healing ...
Researchers call for end to pharmaceutical industry's ‘cynical use' of drug studies...
Two-thirds of meta-analyses in the [medical] literature are of poor quality...
STATIN-INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY ...
High Cholesterol Wards Off Dementia in Elderly...
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