Statins News From Medical News TodayLatest Statins News From Medical News Today.Members Of Consumer-Driven Health Plans Choosing Less Care- July 9, 2008 Consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) -- hailed since their inception in 2000 as a tool to help control costs -- are resulting in members forgoing care and discontinuing drugs to treat chronic medical problems, according to two newly published studies. Under employer-offered CDHPs, members pay up-front deductibles either out-of-pocket or from a dedicated health-care account before insurance coverage begins.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/114269.php Statins Have Unexpected Effect On Pool Of Powerful Brain Cells- July 4, 2008 Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found. The new findings shed light on a long-debated potential role for statins in the area of dementia. Neuroscientists found that statins, one of the most widely prescribed classes of medication ever used, have an unexpected effect on brain cells.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113859.php |