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

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

Dr Jay Edelberg, Head of the PCSK9 Development and Launch Unit at Sanofi discusses the ongoing clinical trial assessing PCSK9 inhibitors for use in patients with high cholesterol, in our ...

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

The U.S. government's premier research body has made an important discovery that could help create new drugs to lower "bad" ...

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 ...

Pharma companies Merck & Co. Inc. and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. convinced a judge to throw out several claims alleging ...

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC), also known as ‘bad cholesterol,’ contributes to plaque buildup in the arteries and causes damage, making it a ‘silent killer’ ...