Niacin to the Rescue
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I am taking niacin for high cholesterol. How does it work?
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Dec. 13 - An Australian company says they&#39;ve developed a fat burning pill that is proving to be successful. Australian biotech group Metabolic Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
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A once-a-day pill that helps people to lose weight and stop smoking could be available within two years. The drug, rimonabant, works on a newly discovered system in the brain that is involved
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A new study, published in the November issue of the journal &quot;Diabetes Care&quot; has indicated that about 40 percent of diabetic patients can reduce their risk of heart attacks and of dying from heart disease by taking vitamin E supplements.
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NEW YORK  - Heart attack survivors might do  well to begin treatment with a statin drug -- such as Lipitor  or Zocor -- as soon as possible, a new study suggests.
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Taking vitamin C or a blood pressure lowering drug could help some of the complications associated with diabetes.
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NEW YORK  - Measuring blood levels of a chemical transporter for vitamin A may be useful in estimating a person's "intraabdominal fat," a type of fat inside the abdomen that it not visible, but still adversely affects health, new research shows.
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A compound in blueberries appears to be effective in lowering cholesterol, according to a study using cells from rat livers. The compound, called pterostilbene, has the potential to be developed into a natural
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An experimental wonder drug, Rimonabant, helps you lose weight, quit smoking and it also helps protect your heart. Trials have shown that 33% of people on Rimonabant lost 10% of body weight and kept their
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A compound in the fruits acted as effectively as a commercial drug used to reduce levels of the &quot;bad&quot; form of cholesterol in rodents.
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An Australian company announced they have a pill that takes care of your bulge, and they said it is free of side effects. The company Metabolic Pharmaceuticals said the drug works by burning fat.
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Vitamin supplements increase the death rate of people taking them, medical researchers have found - but they don&#39;t know why. About one in three women and one in four men in Britain take dietary supplements to boost their health.
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Science & environment: Ben Goldacre: Wondrous, amazing, buy-more-now positive results of even more trials of fish oils have started appearing all over the media.
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Cancer drug shows exceptional promise as it moves toward FDA review.
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(CBS) For years, it was thought that megadoses of Vitamin E were good for you. &quot;Even many cardiologists took high doses of Vitamin E,&quot; The Early Show medical correspondent Dr.
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Here&#39;s the good news from the National Cancer Institute. A new study finds those foods can decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, unfortunately it doesn&#39;t decrease the risk of cancer.
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A way to measure energy levels inside living heart cells could ultimately aid heart attack recovery.