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Statins linked to 20,000 side effects and 227 deaths in the UK alone

Statins linked to 20,000 side effects and 227 deaths in the UK alone Lucy Johnston Sunday Express Sun, 05 Jul 2015 11:07 UTC Medical reports compiled on patients’ illnesses shows the cholesterol lowering drugs have been associated with a huge dossier of reported side-effects including irreversible muscle breakdown, muscle pain, blood disorders, diabetes, skin disorders,…

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July 8, 2015
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Parkinson’s link to statins: Calls to end widespread use of the drug

PLANS for the mass prescription of statins should be shelved after a study linked the drug to Parkinson’s disease, an expert last night warned. Dr Kailash Chand, deputy chairman of the British Medical Association, was speaking following research which found those who take the cholesterol-lowering drugs are more than twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s…

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March 9, 2015