Cheap drugs could save thousands of lives -- in Sweden alone
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
A major new international study involving researchers from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital has revealed that aspirin, statins, beta blockers and ACE inhibitors are prescribed far too infrequently. They are cheap, preventive medicines that could prevent a huge number of deaths from heart attacks and strokes.