The Cochrane Reviews

[lars999]

Hello!

Here is what appears to be a useful website http://www.cochrane.org

Here is their discription of what it contains, does. It is based in UK.

Cochrane Reviews are published in The Cochrane Library ­– an online collection of databases that brings together in one place rigorous and up-to-date research on the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions, as well as methodology and diagnostic tests.

There are over 4,000 Cochrane Reviews currently available in The Cochrane Library. As many as 2,000 protocols for Cochrane Reviews are also available, providing an explicit description of the research methods and objectives for Cochrane Reviews in progress.

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Lars

[lars999]

Here is link to most recent study that states that statin drugs are of no value to persons that have not already had a heath attack.

LINK: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/23/why- ... rong.html#

Here is text about statins:
QUOTE : In just the last two months, two pillars of preventive medicine fell. A major study concluded there’s no good evidence that statins (drugs like Lipitor and Crestor) help people with no history of heart disease. The study, by the Cochrane Collaboration, a global consortium of biomedical experts, was based on an evaluation of 14 individual trials with 34,272 patients. Cost of statins: more than $20 billion per year, of which half may be unnecessary. (Pfizer, which makes Lipitor, responds in part that “managing cardiovascular disease risk factors is complicatedâ€