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...smaller group of women - those who already have heart disease - the data suggests that statins can reduce heart-related deaths. But as Dr. Beatrice Golomb, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, says, they don't reduce deaths overall. "Any reduction in death from heart disease seen in the data has been completely offset by deaths from other causes," she says. Which raises the question: If statins do not help prolong women's lives, why are so many women taking them...
Many doctors may be so unfamiliar with the side effects of statins, says Golomb, that they deny their connection to the drugs. That may contribute to the underfiling of adverse-drug-reaction reports with the Food and Drug Administration...
...house to use as a lookout. The first one they chose proved inadequate, but a second, about 30 yards away, seemed better situated. The soldiers walked into a 3-foot-wide alley next to the house, searching for an entrance. They paused while an officer, Major Oded Golomb, walked ahead to set charges to blow the door open...
...Lisa M. Golomb...
Although hairy-cell leukemia affects only 400 Americans a year, Golomb and Quesada point out that it is just one of several cancers that affect a class of white blood cells called B-cells; collectively these cancers strike 35,000 Americans a year. Says Golomb: "This may be a window into a family of disorders." Interferon has already proved useful in treating multiple myeloma, a B-cell-related cancer of the bone marrow that annually afflicts more than 8,000 Americans...