The U.S. spent 16 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - a cool $2 trillion - on health care in 2005.[1. Park, A. America's Health Check Up. 11/20/2008. Time Magazine Online.] Considering this enormous expenditure, we should have the best medicine in the world. We should be reversing disease, preventing disease, and doing minimal harm. However, careful and objective review shows the opposite. The U.S. ranks just 34th in the world in life ...
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Research by an Iowa State University scientist due to be published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins) may lessen brain function. The results of the study show that drugs that inhibit the liver from making cholesterol may also keep the brain from making cholesterol, which is vital to efficient brain function. "If you deprive cholesterol from the brain, then you directly affect the machinery that triggers the ...
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