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...leads to cardiovascular disease, but don't yet show the effects. "I'm not recommending putting [statins] in the drinking water," says Dr. Antonio Gotto, a cardiologist and dean of Weill-Cornell School of Medicine in New York City. "But some 6 million to 7 million more people could benefit from their...
...heart attack in people with "normal" cholesterol levels and no history of heart disease? But here researchers ran into an ethical dilemma. Considering everything they knew about the effectiveness of statins, would it be fair in a test of their theory to withhold the drugs from those who might benefit from them but would be given a placebo, or dummy pill...
...Statins are one therapy; ACE inhibitors are another," he says. "There are pretty powerful data that medical therapy can arrest the progression of coronary disease and atherosclerosis and cut down on cardiac events." As always, the art of medicine is in taking that information and figuring out who will benefit most...
...South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas and Colorado seek to direct taxes on gambling and lotteries to benefit schools...
HEALTH CARE Gore will use $253 billion of the budget surplus between now and 2010 for prescription-drug coverage for the elderly under Medicare. Bush devotes $110 billion to overhaul Medicare and relies on the as yet undemonstrated goodwill of insurance companies to provide a drug benefit. Whenever Gore brings up this subject or Social Security or any threat to the elderly, he's accused of scare tactics. I should hope...