From this morning’s New York Times:
Experts Set a Lower Low for Cholesterol Levels
By GINA KOLATA
Published: July 13, 2004
“The new recommendations call for treatment with cholesterol-lowering drugs for millions of Americans who had thought their cholesterol levels were fine. Already more than 10 million people take the drugs. But now, more should start, the recommendations say.”
“The recommendations, which modify guidelines set by the government only two and a half years ago, will increase by a few million the number of Americans who meet the criteria for therapy with the powerful cholesterol-reducing drugs called statins, and many people who are already taking the medications will be advised to increase their doses.”
In other words, the drug companies aren’t making enough money.
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Okay…I have to comment. That is just sick. I am so very tired of being over-medicated. How ever did people survive in the 60s and 70s– before they were asked to take ten or twenty pills a day? Children made it through school every day without Ridlin. An occasional Bayer asprin used to take away a pain or a headache – now you have, what? fifty choices? People weren’t given a new anti-depressant to try once every month so they could find that “always-happy-place” that simply DOES NOT EXIST!
I’m done now.