News 

Here you will find links to material that has been added to this site during the last six months. Contributions from members of THINCS are marked with an asterisk. 

Uffe Ravnskov*  Should medical science ignore the past? BMJ 2008;337:a1681
Sandy Szwarc.* Is it for real? Cholesterol screening in toddlers and statins from elementary school age?
Tara Parker Pope; New York Times. 8-Year-Olds on Statins? A New Plan Quickly Bites Back
Tara Parker Pope; New York Times. Palpitations Over a New Pill for Kids
Barry Groves.* Trick and Treat: How Healthy Eating Is Making Us Ill. A new excellent book by one of our members
Michael Eades. Truth versus hype in the Jupiter study About JUPITER and the new superstatin Crestor
Sandy Szwarc.* When the news sounds too good… statin, the new wonder drug. More about JUPITER
Paul Rosch.* Neuropathy, Memory Loss And Statins Letter to JAMA rejected by the editor.
Paul Rosch,* Uffe Ravnskov.* On The Unimportance of MRFIT and Relative Risk. Another rejected letter   
Shane Ellison.* Jupiter study highlights 4 reasons to say no to Crestor.  
Marcia Angell. Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption. By the previous editor of New England Journal of medicine
Uffe Ravnskov*, Kilmer McCully*. The real cause of cardiovascular disease. A new hypothesis explaining the many observations that are in conflict with the cholesterol hypothesis. You can get the full paper from the authors (click on one of their names)
Duff Wilson. Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary. A New York Times article about Harvard medical students taught by a professor sponsored by ten drug compagnies