http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/topic/7707 Stories within a topic (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/gene-responsible-statin-induced-muscle-pain-identified <!--paging_filter--><p><a title="" href="http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=163">Statins</a>, the popular class of drugs used to lower cholesterol, are among the most commonly prescribed medications in developed countries. But for some patients, accompanying side effects of muscle weakness and pain become chronic problems and, in rare cases, can escalate to <a title="" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/11/eveningnews/main648685.shtml">debilitating and even life-threatening damage</a>.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/gene-responsible-statin-induced-muscle-pain-identified">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:19:08 -0500 404132862 20011 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/research-highlights-muscle-s-many-motions <!--paging_filter--><p>New research from Harvard’s <a title="" href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/node/7705">Concord Field Station</a> has shown that the common perception of a muscle as a single functional unit is incorrect and that different sections within an individual muscle actually do different work.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/research-highlights-muscle-s-many-motions">read more</a></p> Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:46:03 -0500 404132862 7706 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu