Current AHA guidelines call for healthy Americans to bring LDL below 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood, while ...
Statins are widely prescribed medications used to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Statin drugs are some of the most commonly prescribed medications in the world. They are used to lower cholesterol and reduce ...
Although these cholesterol medications are some of the safest and most effective, they can come with unwanted side effects. We asked a doctor to explain.
Most statin drugs are FDA-approved for children and teens under age 18, but only if they have a genetic condition that cause extremely high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol. Yet in 2009 ...
Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment.
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 ...
The good news is, you can do something about it! You can lower your cholesterol levels in a variety of ways, from eating ...
Houston Methodist researchers have discovered that certain components of so-called "good" cholesterol -- high-density ...
Cholesterol-lowering statins such as Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) are among the most widely prescribed drugs on the market today. Their purpose is to lower blood ...
NPPA fixes retail prices for 65 new drug formulations and ceiling prices for 13, including vaccines and essential drugs.