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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Statins are the most widely prescribed, cholesterol-lowering drugs in the world. Despite the expiration of their patents, revenue for statins is expected to rise, with total sales on track to reach an ...

Cholesterol-lowering medications, like ezetimibe, may cut liver cancer risk by 31%. Discover how this breakthrough could help.

Aim: It has been shown that HMG-CoA inhibitors, also called statins, may interfere with the tubular reabsorption of albumin, increasing urinary albumin excretion. Patients & methods: We have ...

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 ...

But, for millions of people, statins simply don't do enough. Melinda Wenner Moyer explores ongoing efforts to develop new cholesterol-lowering drugs in light of clues that cardiovascular health is ...