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Soundbites

17 January 2007

“Nobody should stop taking statins on the basis of this report… they will be putting themselves at increased risk of heart attack or stroke.”

Peter Weissberg of the British Heart Foundation on a small study that found patients with low levels of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol – which can be lowered by statins – to be three times as likely to have Parkinson’s disease as those with high levels (The Daily Telegraph, London, 15 January)

“I’m prepared to bid for that first ticket to shoot a wolf.”

Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter of Idaho, speaking in support of the public hunting…

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