And of course on the mornings I was taking Vicodin, I was deprived of the cholesterol-lowering benefit of my statin.

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One of the things I recommended was lowering taxes on domestic production over 5-years, while raising taxes sharply on foreign goods targeted to this market over 5-years.

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"I very much doubt it will ever be a substitute for cholesterol-lowering, but it might very well be an add-on, " says Daugherty.

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Harvard researcher Marc Pfeffer, who was paid to help conduct the study for AtheroGenics , said AGI-1067 "is as promising as anything I have seen" for preventing heart attacks on top of existing cholesterol-lowering and hypertension medicines.

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Harvard researcher Marc Pfeffer, who was paid to help conduct the study for AtheroGenics (nasdaq: AGIX - news - people ), said AGI-1067 "is as promising as anything I have seen" for preventing heart attacks on top of existing cholesterol-lowering and hypertension medicines.

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President Obama's own deficit reduction commission, on which I served -- the Simpson-Bowles commission -- followed this template of lowering tax rates and broadening the base by getting rid of spending in the code.

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"I think most physicians think it is unethical to take a drug like that and market it with only one cholesterol-lowering medicine, " says Richard Stein, a cardiologist at Beth Israel Medical Center.

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