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Cholesterol drugs' cancer risk in spotlight (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

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New data on whether the popular cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin increase risk of cancer will be one of the highlights of a huge European conference of heart specialists opening Saturday.

Fish oil outperforms statin in heart failure study (International Herald Tribune)
Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research published online in the medical journal The Lancet on Sunday.

Fish Oil, Not AstraZeneca Drug, Fights Heart Failure (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Fish oil capsules prevent death and hospital stays in patients whose hearts fail to pump correctly, researchers said. In a related study, AstraZeneca Plc 's Crestor cholesterol-lowering drug didn't help them. austrian crystal rose nose bone best of mother s day version arnold symphony no 9 penny national so of ireland

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