OT: UK:Cholesterol drug link to disturbed teacher’s death

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3177638.ece

>From The Sunday Times

January 13, 2008

Cholesterol drug link to disturbed teacher’s death

Keilthy and Holly Watt

A CORONER has linked a cholesterol-lowering drug prescribed to millions to

the death of a senior master at a top independent school.

Allan Woolley, a housemaster at University College school in Hampstead,

north London, died last April when he stood in front of a train. He had had

“psychic disturbances” after taking statins.

Woolley had complained of blackouts and insomnia after taking a simvastatin

produced by Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD). Simvastatins are a form of statin,

which lower levels of cholesterol and other lipids, or fats, in the blood.

Last week Dr , the deputy coroner for Hornsey, directed the

jury to cite the drug simvastatin in their verdict on the inquest.

“Following legal argument I have decided that this is not a case where you

can return a suicide verdict. You must not say that Allan Woolley killed

himself . . . Or that he took his own life. You must include that the drug

simvastatin was involved.”

Woolley’s doctor is now entitled to write to the Medicines and Healthcare

Products Regulatory Agency to notify it about the side effects of the drug.

About 3.4m Britons take statins to cut the risk of heart attack and stroke,

of whom 1m are on Zocor, the brand of simvastatin taken by Woolley. The

market is worth almost £1 billion a year.

Woolley’s friends and family say that the teacher’s death at North Wembley

train station in London was completely out of character. In a written

statement Woolley’s sister Lorraine Bubb said: “I understand that in the

days leading to his death my brother had had nightmares which were so

terrible he could not distinguish between them and real life.”

Woolley, 52, who lived on his own, was described by his headmaster as

“immensely popular and inspirational”. He had taught at the school for 27

years, leading the school’s Ten Tors expeditions to Dartmoor for most of

that period, and was in charge of cross-country running.

When questioned at the inquest Dr Fredric Steinberg, a physician employed by

MSD, said psychic disturbances were among the “rare” and “low-occurrence”

side effects of simvastatins. But he added: “It could be depression; it

could be hallucination; it could be anxiety.”

A spokesman for MSD said the company was not aware of the “detailed

specifics of the underlying health condition” of Woolley. “However, our

sympathies go out to his family.”

Have your say

There is massive systemic under-reporting of drug reactions.

Since being rescued from statins myself, I have investigated and found them

to be dangerous on two counts.

1) They suppress our bodies ability to make a range of substances we require

for normal daily functioning of muscles,nerves and brain. (Mevalonate

Inhibition).

2) Cholesterol is vital to health! Ask what it does and why we make so much

of it!

Cholesterol was never guilty and no convincing scientific proof of of it

becoming harmful was ever produced.

Why do biochemists allow medics to believe this toxic nonsense?

Glyn Wainwright, Leeds, England

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