[Health] High-dose statins 'raise risk of serious kidney problems'

High-dose statins 'raise risk of serious kidney problems'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9941391/High-dose-statins-raise-risk-of-serious-kidney-problems.html
Taking strong doses of simvastatin, atorvastatin or rosuvastatin increases the risk of being hospitalised with a condition called acute kidney injury, or AKI, by 34 per cent on average, found the Canadian team.

Melanoma Drug Succeeds in Late-Stage Trial
http://www.counselheal.com/articles/4448/20130320/amgen-shows-strong-results-melanoma-treatment-eno.htm
Melanoma Drug Succeeds in Late-Stage Trial. By ANDREW POLLACK. Published: March 19, 2013. A cancer drug based on a tumor-killing virus has for the first time succeeded in a late-stage clinical trial, giving a lift to a technology that has long tantalized ...

Douglas County named one of least healthiest in Oregon
http://www.unionvilletimes.com/?p=14553
ROSEBURG (KMTR) - Douglas County is ranked as one of the least healthy counties in Oregon, according to the 2013 National County Health Rankings.

Blood Test Implant: Tiny Under-Skin Device Sends Instant Lab Analysis To Your ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2296347/The-medical-lab-skin-automatically-phone-doctor-fall-ill.html
Forget the pricks and pains of needles; blood testing may have just gotten a whole lot easier. Swiss researchers unveiled a prototype for a blood-testing device that lives under the skin during the annual Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference on ...

FDA advisers vote for approval of Abbott's implantable heart device
http://www.ptca.org/news/2013/0320_ABBOTT_MITRACLIP.html
Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:14pm EDT. (Reuters) - A slim majority of advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted on Wednesday for approval of Abbott Laboratories' implantable heart device MitraClip, saying it had more benefits than risks.