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Monday, November 09, 2009

Side-effects Alert For All Statin Users as Drug is Linked to Depression and Memory Loss

New health warnings are to be issued over popular cholesterol-lowering drugs after evidence that thousands of users suffer side effects such as depression and sexual problems.
More than six million adults who are prescribed statins by their GPs will be told about five new ' undesirable effects' in leaflets issued with packets of the drugs.
These are sleep disturbances, memory loss, sexual dysfunction, depression and a rare lung disease that can kill if left untreated.'

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