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Such home monitoring, says Dr. George Dailey, a physician at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, "could someday replace less productive ways that patients track changes in their heart rate, blood sugar, lipid levels, kidney functions and even vision...
...Lower blood-lipid levels --Decreased risk of hormone-related cancers of the breast, ovaries, endometrium and prostate --Relief from menopausal symptoms...
CRESTOR Dubbed the superstatin, this newest member of the cholesterol-lowering-drug family reduces blood lipid levels in some cases as much as 60%. The FDA approved Crestor in August, and maker Astra Zeneca plans to have it in pharmacies in the next few months...
Cautious optimism also pervades the Rogosin Institute in New York City, where Dr. Bruce Gordon, an expert on treating high cholesterol, became intrigued with the fact that cholesterol and blood lipids (fats) in people with severe illness or injury tend to drop to abnormally low levels. This makes them more vulnerable to sepsis, he reasoned, because one of the lipids' functions is to bind to and neutralize endotoxins. His unorthodox solution (especially for someone known for fighting high cholesterol): try to raise lipid levels in sepsis victims...
Working with a lipid emulsion derived by Rogosin researchers from soybeans, Dr. Joseph Parrillo, a leading authority on sepsis at Chicago's Rush medical center, infected 19 pigs with bacteria containing endotoxin, then infused the Rogosin emulsion into eight of them. The results were striking. All 11 of the untreated pigs died, while seven of the treated animals survived. Says Parrillo: "It's kind of convincing...