cholesterol lowering makes financial and medical sense
pill that lowers cholesterol can also lower the hospital expensive health problems ,a study concludes
the results released last week ,show that giving the drug simvastatin to heart patients reduced their hospital admissions by one-third during five years of treatment
it also reduced the number of days that they had to spend in the hospital and reduced the need for bypass surgery and angioplasty
this is both good medicine and good economics, said Dr.sanford schwartz, a physician and economist at the university of pensylvania