An Avocado a Day for a Healthy Heart
An apple a day may keep the doctor away…. but it’s a daily avocado we need to lower bad cholesterol, a study shows. The so-called avocado diet was also found to improve other blood fat...
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£15Billion NHS Pill Bill
The NHS cost as half of woman are on prescription drugs. The Sun newspaper reports that almost half England’s population takes prescription drugs – costing the NHS £15billion a year. Fifty per cent of woman...
Drug cuts cholesterol to level of a baby
A powerful new drug slashes “bad” cholesterol significantly, a study has found. Alirocumab could be the most important drug to tackle bad cholesterol since statins were introduced. It is being hailed as the latest weapon...