On AlterNet: cholesterol

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "cholesterol"

8-Year-Olds on Cholesterol Meds? Is Big Pharma Pumping Kids Full of Dangerous Drugs?

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. January 26, 2011.

With childhood obesity on the rise, many kids are suffering from adult ailments. But Big Pharma's role in pushing adult drugs on kids requires a closer look.

Unsafe Heart Medication Peddled to Public as Wonder Drug

Donald W. Light, Science Progress. December 23, 2008.

Crestor offers little benefit and offsets it with costly side effects. But you wouldn't know this from drug-company propaganda.

Doctors Push Cholesterol Drugs on Kids

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 10, 2008.

The obesity epidemic is largely of our own making. The solution has to come from healthy activities, not the pharmaceutical industry.

The Bad Science That Created the Cholesterol Con

Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. March 3, 2008.

The war against cholesterol has become a profitable cottage industry. But the science behind it has more than a few gaps. (Part two in a series)

The Cholesterol Con -- Where Were the Doctors?

Maggie Mahar -- BAD, DON'T USE, Health Beat. February 29, 2008.

For years, medical studies have challenged the efficacy of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Why are we just hearing about this now?

Taxpayer Money Squandered for Cholesterol Drug Vytorin

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. January 29, 2008.

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology told patients to stay on the drug despite a recent damning study.