The world's best-selling drug is no more effective than similar drugs and in some cases has worse side effects, according to a study of the cardiovascular treatment drug Lipitor.

The results come from a survey of previous studies worldwide, rather than new clinical tests on patients. It was released Saturday by Institut fuer Qualitaet und Wirtschaftslichkeit im Gesundheitswesen

Researchers say a widely used pill can reduce the risk of death in elderly heart attack survivors by preventing their hearts from deteriorating through a process known as "remodeling."

Perindopril, part of a group of popular anti-hypertension drugs called ACE inhibitors, reduces remodeling by 46 percent over a period of one year, when compared to a placebo. This according to a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology congress

A trial published in this week's issue of the Lancet

The study, called the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial, shows the technique, known as coiling, is more likely to result in survival without disability for one year, when compared to neurosurgical clipping, which involves a craniotomy and clipping of the aneurysm to prevent further bleeding

A trial published in this week's issue of the Lancet

The study, called the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial, shows the technique, known as coiling, is more likely to result in survival without disability for one year, when compared to neurosurgical clipping, which involves a craniotomy and clipping of the aneurysm to prevent further bleeding

A survey of 19 public health clinics describes a wide variety of response times and medical advice given its researchers, who posed as doctors in telephone calls to clinics across the country in a test that stretched over nine months.

One health clinic officer told a caller describing botulism symptoms to go back to bed. Another told a caller describing signs of bubonic plague not to worry. And not one of the public health clinic surveyed by the RAND Corporation suggested isolating a patient whose face, arms and legs were said to be covered with pustules or other smallpox symptoms, reports The Associated Press