Monthly Archives: September 2008

LSHTM Audio News: British Association Special Edition

By admin | Published: September 10, 2008
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Astrid Fletcher

Peter Goodwin hears from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine experts speaking at the annual science festival of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Liverpool, September 6-10, 2008, and from recent scientific publications on: the health impact of global warming, a tropical virus reaching temperate zones, inequalities in cancer outcomes, how eating oily fish can save your eyesight, and free internet publishing scientific journals.

INTERVIEWS:
Astrid Fletcher: Eating Oily Fish Protects Your Eyesight
Jo Lines: Chikungunya Virus Danger Beyond The Tropics
Sari Kovats: Global Warming’s Heatwave Health Hazard
Colin Sutherland: Open Access Publishing: Fair Play For Scientists
Michel Coleman: Cancer Survival: Big International Differences

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LDL-How Low?

By admin | Published: September 4, 2008
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Terje Pedersen

Terje Pedersen, Ulleval University, Oslo
Eugene Braunwald, Harvard University, Boston
Lowering LDL Cholesterol intensively as a means of treating aortic stenosis was found to have no benefit in the SEAS (Simvastatin and Ezetimibe In Aortic Stenosis) study reported by Terje Pederson at a Hot Line session of the E.S.C. Congress. But the potential gains from such lowering in other clinical situations could be considerable, according to Eugene Braunwald who chaired the session. In Munich they talked with Peter Goodwin.

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For video news reports by Peter Goodwin from the 2008 ESC Congress in Munich, click here.

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