Re: Snake Oil Cure what ails ya
- From: William Wagner <No1SpamStill__B2wagner@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:34:57 -0400
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William Wagner <No1SpamStill__B2wagner@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I¹m constantly amazed that medical folks design a drug for one
> symptom then after large populations try it claim it is good for
> something else. REAL SCIENCE
>
> http://www.msneighborhood.com/content/in_the_news/archive_2221.aspx
>
> More at the above site.
> Brevity below
> ................................
>
> Statin Medication to be Tested Against MS
>
>
> by John C. Martin
> Article Date: 04-08-05
>
> Armed with promising evidence of the potential of certain
> anti-cholesterol medications known as statins in the treatment of
> multiple sclerosis (MS), medical experts are launching a large clinical
> trial to further test the safety and efficacy of these drugs.
>
> Investigators at more than a dozen medical institutions are currently
> enrolling patients for this Phase 2 trial, which is planned to include
> 152 people at high risk for developing the illness. The drug being
> tested is atorvastatin (uh-TOR-vuh-stat-ihn), marketed as Lipitor by
> Pfizer.
>
> Promising Evidence Uncovered
> The trial is based on previous studies, both in animals and people, that
> have suggested that statins can alter immune responses and possibly
> reduce inflammation. It's believed the cause of MS lies in an abnormal
> immune response that attacks the body's own tissue as if it were
> foreign.1
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=680562
Study: Statins Lower Advanced Prostate Cancer Risk
Apr 18, 2005 ? By Deena Beasley
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins may
slash a man's risk of advanced prostate cancer, according to research
presented Monday.
A study that followed more than 34,000 men over 10 years found that men
who used statins had half the risk of advanced prostate cancer and
one-third the risk of fatal prostate cancer, compared with men who did
not use the drugs.
Statins ? which include Pfizer Inc.'s $10 billion-a-year Lipitor,
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s Pravachol and Merck and Co. Inc.'s Zocor ?
interfere with an enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase that enables the liver
to produce cholesterol.
The longer the drugs were taken, the more the cancer risk dropped,
according to research from Johns Hopkins University, the National Cancer
Institute and Harvard University.
Statins are the world's best-selling drugs, taken by millions to reduce
the risk of heart attack by lowering cholesterol levels.
"This means we will have a little bit less trouble convincing men to
stay on their drugs," said Dr. Howard Weintraub, co-director of New York
University School of Medicine's lipid treatment and research center.
"Reducing the incidence of prostate cancer while at the same time
encouraging cardiovascular health is a win-win situation," said
Weintraub, who was not involved in the study.
The research did not find, however, that use of statins had any
influence on cancer that had not spread beyond the prostate.
The researchers, who presented the results at a meeting of the American
Association for Cancer Research in Anaheim, California, stressed that
more work is needed to confirm the study, which was conducted through
questionnaires.
"If the conclusions continue to hold up over time, there is a great
translational potential for preventing invasive and metastatic prostate
cancer," lead investigator Dr. Elizabeth Platz said in a statement.
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the
United States, with more than 230,000 new cases expected this year. It
is the second leading cause of death due to cancer, after lung cancer.
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