To lower high cholesterol, doctors often prescribe medications known as statins. These drugs work by reducing the liver’s ability to produce cholesterol, especially LDL cholesterol. Statins are ...

Medications used to treat cholesterol could prevent deaths when taken during blood cancer treatment, a UAE study has found ...

Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs could be available to millions more patients in the UK, if new recommendations from health technology assessment (HTA) organisation NICE are implemented.

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Lowering cholesterol triggers other health problems. Mostly false. Prior to the introduction of statins four decades ago, ...

A leading pharmacist has revealed the key nutrients we may be lacking that could be the cause for feeling constantly tired - ...

A pharmacist has cautioned that millions of Britons could be at risk of developing diseases such as scurvy, shingles and ...

Now, researchers at the University of Michigan may have found a new piece of the puzzle. They have been studying a protein in ...

AstraZeneca is to sell European rights to its cholesterol drug Crestor (rosuvastatin) to Germany’s Grunenthal. Crestor is a statin and at its peak generated annual revenues of more than $7 ...

Chronic inflammation refers to a prolonged inflammatory response that involves a progressive change in the type of cells present at the site of inflammation. It is characterized by the ...