http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Treatment with high potency statins (especially atorvastatin and simvastatin) may increase the risk of developing diabetes, suggests a paper published today in BMJ. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-statin-linked-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 23 May 2013 18:30:01 EST news288550995 (HealthDay)—Search logs can be used to inexpensively mine for anonymized signals that may alert authorities to potential drug interactions and add new Web-scale pharmacovigilance capabilities, according to research published online March 6 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-internet-drug-interactions.html Medications Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:50:01 EST news283698149 Internet searches on health symptoms can be used to identify drug side effects and could be used to develop a new kind of early warning system to boost drug safety, indicates a study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-internet-drug-safety-issues.html Medications Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:30:03 EST news281808744 (HealthDay)—People who exercise along with taking statins to lower their high cholesterol levels can dramatically reduce their risk of dying, a large new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-statins-lowering-cholesterol.html Cardiology Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:00:25 EST news273339182 In a study of more than 1,000 adults, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, found that individuals taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are more likely than non-users to experience decreased energy, fatigue upon exertion, or both. The researchers suggest that these findings should be taken into account by doctors when weighing risk versus benefit in prescribing statins. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-statins-shown-fatigue.html Medications Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:00:03 EST news258648818