The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s no-cost coverage mandates for ...

The cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are FDA-approved to reduce elevated levels of LDL cholesterol in the blood, which can build up on artery walls and trigger a heart attack or stroke.

Statins rank as some of the most frequently prescribed medications in the United States—the Cleveland Clinic says 92 million U.S. adults take statins to lower their risk of cardiovascular ...

A. Statins can increase the chance that someone will develop Type 2 diabetes (Journal of the National Medical Association, ...

A combination therapy of two drugs — a statin and a protein inhibitor — may help suppress the creation and growth of tumors ...

More than 25 years of clinical trial data have established statins as first-line therapy for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. With regard to low-density ...

Some conclusions could be drawn: first, microalbuminuria seems to be associated with statin treatment; nevertheless, this cross-sectional study cannot confirm that statins induce proteinuria ...

A new study in the Lancet attempted to calm fears about the side-effects of statins in people at low risk of heart disease – but seems to have reignited a bitter row in the medical ...

Researchers found that chemicals, including PFAS, from pharmaceuticals are entering into wastewater — which can be used as ...

What is the risk/benefit level of statins for me? — B.B. ANSWER: We don’t really know. There haven’t been many studies about starting statins in people as old as you. However, I can tell you ...

Yet in 2009, pediatricians wrote children in the U.S. at least 2.8 million prescriptions for drugs to lower cholesterol; nearly 2.3 million of them were for statins. (not including prescriptions ...

Salk scientists discover protein first identified at Salk in 1996 called PIN1 encourages tumor growth in bladder cancer, then ...