Alzheimer's disease, a devastating neurodegenerative condition that affects millions of people worldwide, may have found a ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just shared a preliminary list of generic drugs it plans to make ...

That is: Conventional medicine approaches to high cholesterol levels are combated with statin drugs. Statin drugs are a lipid-lowering class that are the best-studied medications for lowering LDL ...

To prevent these problems, doctors often prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs. Statins are the most commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering medications, used by more than 200 million people ...

High LDL cholesterol levels (“bad cholesterol”), low HDL cholesterol levels (“good cholesterol”), and high triglyceride levels are now recognized as being major risk factors for cardiovascular disease ...

One common way to lower cholesterol levels is by using medications such as rosuvastatin. However, a recent study suggests that this drug, especially in higher doses, could potentially harm your ...

Here's a list of questions and answers ... will you need to start taking a statin or other medication? Not always. If you’re taking medicine to lower your cholesterol, there may be times when ...

Past studies have suggested that taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may lower individuals’ risk of developing liver cancer. In a new study of non-statin cholesterol-lowering medications, one ...

In this episode of BBC Radio 4's Sliced Bread, presenter Greg Foot is dipping into cholesterol-lowering foods, drinks and medications to figure out which products really work. Listener Cathy wants ...

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