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Medication safety
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A statin alternative cut serious leg artery events by 36% in people who cannot take statins
Peripheral artery disease ends in amputation often enough that limb outcomes are the ones patients care about, and cholesterol trials rarely report them. This one did, in 1,624 patients who could not tolerate statins.
Sep 6, 2026
A cholesterol drug cut deaths from any cause by 20% in people who had never had a heart attack
Cholesterol drugs are judged on heart attacks and strokes, and rarely move the count of deaths at all. Across 12,301 people with no prior event, this one moved it, and moved deaths that had nothing to do with the heart.
Sep 6, 2026
Antihistamines helped eczema too little for patients to notice, across 47 trials
Antihistamines are routinely added to eczema treatment for the itch. Pooling every randomized trial found an effect that is real, measurable, and smaller than the smallest change a patient would call worthwhile.
Sep 4, 2026
An old antibiotic beat a newer drug at preventing COPD flare-ups, 17% fewer
Two maintenance drugs for chronic lung disease have never been compared head to head. An analysis built to imitate that missing trial, across 15,100 matched patients, found a clear winner.
Sep 4, 2026