People who are monitoring their heart health should avoid certain kinds of food. These foods, some of which may be surprising ...

Q: I take more than 10 pills every day. I don’t even remember why a couple of them were prescribed. I wonder if I can ...

I am a healthy 84-year-old who exercises regularly, eats meat and dairy sparingly, doesn’t smoke, and has a BMI about 25. (I’m 6 feet, 1 inch tall, at 185 pounds.) My yearly wellness test was ...

The Food and Drug Administration has added eggs to its updated list of healthy foods along with fish and vegetables ...

Scientists have devised a vegetarian recipe for protecting the heart that is as effective as cholesterol-lowering drugs, it has been revealed. A Canadian study found that the special vegetarian ...

Millions of people take statins like Simvastatin (above) to lower their cholesterol levels. Newer PCSK9 inhibitor drugs can drop levels even further. Someone in the United States dies from heart ...

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that ...

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For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall, and snowmen symbolize cocaine.

Zocor (simvastatin) and Lipitor (atorvastatin) are both statin drugs, which are medications used to lower cholesterol levels in the blood. Statins primarily work by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA ...

A nutritious, balanced diet is important for those with prediabetes and high cholesterol. Dietitians may recommend the Mediterranean and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH ...

The same insurgents who embraced opium to help finance their war have put an end to it, ordering a ban that has all but cleared Afghanistan of poppy and other illicit drugs. What the United States ...