These guys that are managing the medical journals really ought to get their act together. The term “peer reviewed” is really starting to lose its significance.

I’m glad my country (Iceland) isn’t as drug-infested as the U.S., the teachers at my med school keep telling us about how the drug industry has an influence on the medical industry and that drugs aren’t always the answer.

Here it’s also illegal to advertise drugs in the common media so people are never exposed to any pharmaceutical commercials.

My daughter has lived with ALS like symptoms for almost 3 years. The worst of the symptoms began when her simvastatin was increased to 80mg in 2008.
Her MRI’s show LESIONS in the brain stem, specifically in the PONS area of her brain.
Of course, her 4 physicians refuse to believe that statin is involved. They are all satisfied with the diagnosis of “Ataxia”.

My Appeal is to all those who have similar brain lesions as shown and documented in MRIs. Please reply.

BTW, I’m 47 and have never smoked, and had a heart attack last year. (I’m only one person, but I remember you saying in another post that everyone you knew who had had a heart attack was a smoker, so I thought I should mention this.) Since then, I’ve been on an ACE inhibitor, a beta blocker, a statin, and aspirin. The possible side effects of the drugs concern me, but it requires some courage to reject the confident advice of one’s primary physician and cardiologist, and I figure that the positive effect, even if slight, on people under 65 with pre-existing heart disease, might well be worth it for me.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5237700/Cholesterol-busting-statins-could-mask-signs-of-prostate-cancer.html

Interesting article. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.