ConsumerLab.com Warns of Problems with Mulitivitamins and Vitamin Water

White Plains, New York (PRWEB) March 31, 2009 -- Over 30% of multivitamins recently selected for testing by ConsumerLab.com were found to contain significantly more or less ingredient than claimed or...

Dr. Paul Donohue: There are alternatives to statins to lower cholesterol

Dear Dr. Donohue: My doctor prescribed statin drugs to control my LDL cholesterol. First I took lovastatin (Mevacor) and then simvastatin (Zocor), but I had muscle pain and weakness with them. I am reluctant to start the pravastatin (Pravachol) that he has now prescribed. Are there alternatives?

Dr. Donohue: Alternatives to statins help lower cholesterol

Dear Dr. Donohue: My doctor prescribed statin drugs to controlmy LDL cholesterol. First I took lovastatin (Mevacor) and thensimvastatin (Zocor), but I had muscle pain and weakness with them.I am reluctant to start the pravastatin (Pravachol) that he has nowprescribed. Are there alternatives? How about Endur-acin? CoQ10 hasbeen suggested. - D.L.

For some, life-saving drugs have dark side

Like millions of Americans, Willard Clay began taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs after a heart attack in 2003. Almost immediately, though, the 69-year-old Ottawa man started experiencing joint and muscle pain so bad, he says, "I could hardly get out of bed." Trying different types of statins did little to alleviate these problems.

alt.sex.column: Special goop

Have you seen those commercial for the new K-Y product, with all the geysers going off and so on? They're funny, but does the product work — and why? I have orgasms, but not always, Besides, anything that could make it even more fun ...