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Study Finds Another Use For Statins

Just when you thought drug companies couldn't find another use for statins, you guessed it, they found another one! Statin drugs may also help slow down the AIDS virus, Spanish researchers reported. Statins alone given to HIV-infected patients suppressed the virus and helped replenish immune cells known as T-cells -- two key measures of health in patients with the virus. The drugs seem to stop the virus from infecting cells by preventing them from opening the cell membrane, and...