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The collapse of cardiology.(Lifestyle Far Outperforms Medical Procedures)

In the course of the last two months of 2006, drugs and technology have been shown how toxic and damaging they are. These form the backbone of cardiology's assault on the coronary artery disease epidemic. The new knowledge might be considered 'a dark shadow' over our cardiac health or could it be a time to rejoice?

Pfizer announced in late December 2006 that its long hoped for block-buster new drug Torcetrapib was killing more people in its test run than were dying in the control group. Pfizer had spent $800 million in developing this drug to raise HDL, the "good" cholesterol and had forecast a huge income from its marketing. But in the trial of 15,000 patients, 82 died ...

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