Cholesterol Lowering Statins Do Not Affect Cancer Risk

Cholesterol Lowering Statins Do Not Affect Cancer Risk

It was previously thought that cholesterol-lowering drugs - statins - increase cancer risk, but this new large study says that statins neither increase, nor decrease cancer risk.

A year ago a team of researchers from Tufts Medical Center in Boston analyzed 13 studies involving participants taking statins. They reported that people taking statins for lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL - bad cholesterol) are at increased cancer risk, although the increase was not significant - only one case out of 1000.

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Goals and Objectives in the management of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations

Decisions pertaining to endovascular treatment of brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVMs) require complete information with respect to the clinical circumstances and the imaging characteristics including the angioarchitecture of the AVM as well as the brain. With these factors in mind a clinico-morphological analysis can be made to formulate the best plan for therapy, which might include embolization as well as other modalities.

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Fighting HIV-Aids - Many Means, One Goal

Amidst the pessimism springing from the recent failure of about 150 prevention trials that failed to shield subjects against HIV infection, there's the resolve to continue research on developing a vaccine, and battle through all the challenges the process poses. On a pessimistic note, hope of a vaccine in the short term isn't anywhere in sight as France's National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS) has expressed. Though not in the short run, the Scripps Research Institute expressed optimism with a possibility of a vaccine in about 10 years.