When it’s about cocaine abuse, the basic difference between cocaine and crack cocaine is that cocaine is quite well-known as an expensive drug that is widely used by rich and glamorous people. On the other hand, Crack cocaine is cheap and it is mostly used by poor men to get rid of worries and tensions of life. The sad fact is that it makes them feel free of worries and tensions for the time being, but takes them as well as their loved ones in a perpetual agony.

Cocaine is available in powder as well as soluble forms and used by inhaling or through injection. Many addicts mix cocaine with heroine and use it for well-known snowballing. It has been observed that this practice become the cause of more deaths than just of heroine abuse only. Crack cocaine is cheap and that’s why highly addictive and can become an epidemic if not checked in a proper way.

The results of a study (included 17,800 men and women with normal levels of cholesterol) showed that rosuvastatin decreases number of deaths from heart attacks and strokes.

The results have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Statins are given to people who have a moderate to high risk of a cardiovascular ‘event’.

In this trail, included people had normal cholesterol levels that were below than those levels that usually indicate a need for treatment. Those patients didn’t have any other sign of heart disease as well.

However, they had higher levels of a C-reactive protein, which indicates inflammation in the body and considered to be a maker of future cardiovascular events.

20mg of rosuvastatin seemed to cut cholesterol by 50% and C-reactive protein by 37% after an average follow-up of two years and overall, the risk for a heart attack, stroke or death from cardiovascular disease decreased by 44%.

NEW YORK – Turning clock back on Sunday may have a good impact on heart health. Swedish researchers analyzed records of past 20 years and came to know that, the number of heart attacks dipped on the Monday after clocks were set back an hour, probably because people have one hour additional sleep.

But moving clocks forward in the spring showed adverse effect. There was a raise in heart attacks number, during the week after the start of daylight saving time, particularly within first three days of the week.

“Sleep — through a variety of mechanisms — affects our cardiovascular health,” said Dr. Lori Mosca, director of preventive cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, who was not involved in the research. The findings show that “sleep not only impacts how we feel, but it may also affect whether we develop heart disease or not.”

They took advantage of Sweden’s comprehensive record of heart attacks to see if the sleep disorders and the body’s internal clock caused by a time change had any effect on heart attacks from 1987 to 2006. Overall, a week after “spring forward,” there was a 5 percent increase in heart attacks, with a 6 percent knock on Monday and Wednesday and a 10 percent increase on Tuesday.