September 2014 A few weeks ago an Italian research group told us that old healthy people get much benefit from statin treatment. In the abstract you can read that there was no significant effect on mortality, but the risk of …
June 2014 The media are finally waking, at least in the UK. On Tuesday 10th June a press release was sent to all the British newspapers with the title: Leading Doctors Reject Statin Guidance From The National Institute for Health …
May 2014 Adverse effects from statin treatment are very rare. This is what Sir Rory Collins, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Oxford told the media in a fierce comment to two papers published in British Medical Journal (BMJ) where …
May 2014 Why are the media afraid of revealing the greatest medical scandal in modern time? In my October 2013 Newsletter I told you about the Australian TV program “Heart of the matter” produced by Maryanne Demasi, a PhD in …
April 2014 For many years I have published critical reviews and comments about the misleading dietary advices we have got from the leaders of the cholesterol campaign. Last month Rajiv Chowdhury at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, …
March 2014 Last year I saw that a Danish professor of human nutrition together with 17 international experts had published a paper where they recommended us to exchange saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat without specifying which type. As you probably …
February 2014 I was too optimistic in my previous newsletter. I thought that finally the editorial board of British Medical Journal, one of the world´s most influential and respected medical journals, had realized that there is something seriously wrong with …
January 2014 For many years it has been utterly difficult to publish papers critical to the cholesterol campaign and its misleading messages. Let me mention only a paper of mine from 1995 in which I criticized three of the major …
November 2013 Guidelines on the prevention of cardiovascular disease are published again and again from various expert committees. In my August newsletter I told you about those from the International Atherosclerosis Society. Recently new ones were published by the American …
October 2013 Maryanne Demasi is a doctor and a TV producer on the official Australian television ABC. During the last year she has been preparing two television shows about the cholesterol campaign. We have corresponded for more than a year, …