Current AHA guidelines call for healthy Americans to bring LDL below 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood, while ...

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.

Some studies suggest that statins may reduce the risk of kidney damage in people with diabetes or high blood pressure, two ...

Statins are widely prescribed medications used to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Many adults with high LDL (bad) cholesterol resign themselves to taking a statin drug when no other lifestyle changes will work—and in most cases rightly so, since the evidence is strong for ...

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 ...

A research team led by Hong Soon-joon, Cha Jung-joon, and Kim Joo-hyun of the Department of Circulatory Mechanics at Korea ...

NPPA fixes retail prices for 65 new drug formulations and ceiling prices for 13, including vaccines and essential drugs.

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