Take statins early, with a side dish of polypills
The Independent, Telegraph, Daily Mail and the BBC all cover the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology study looking at the damaging effects of taking small paracetamol overdoses.
The best headline being the Mail's "You could kill yourself without knowing it"… I think they might.
For more on this, read C+D's story this morning: "Patients risk lives with ‘staggered' paracetamol overdoses".
On the take more front, the day after the launch of a blood pressure polypill comes an article in the Telegraph that advises anyone at risk of heart attacks to take statins early and forever.
The advice is based on an Oxford University study showing that the earlier patients take them the more benefit they gain.
And two cancer drugs – Busilvex and Velcade, which are produced in the US by Ben Venue - have been recalled by the European Medicines Agency over safety fears, the Telegraph writes.
Back to less now, or rather fewer - midwives. The Independent writes that the shortage of midwives has led to a rise in demand for Caesarean births.
The article follows new guidance from NICE suggesting that pregnant women who request a C-section should be given one. However, the Guardian writes that the NICE guidelines are aimed to discourage women from having the procedure. The BBC, Telegraph and Mail also cover this story
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