Statins: For statins, the side effects can be surprising. Some people taking these medications have been found to gain weight ...

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

People with high cholesterol generally fall into two distinct categories, those who need cholesterol-lowering medication ... but they are not a substitute for statins. For example, phytosterols ...

In a small number of people who are not diabetic but who have ... about adding the more powerful non-statin drugs. Of course, even people on cholesterol-lowering medication should improve the ...

Statins are the most widely prescribed, cholesterol-lowering drugs in the world. Despite the expiration of their patents ... Also, the raw data on the efficacy and safety of statins are being kept ...

Yet in 2009, pediatricians wrote children in the U.S. at least 2.8 million prescriptions for drugs to lower cholesterol; nearly 2.3 million of them were for statins. (not including prescriptions ...

Around two in five of the UK population may suffer from high cholesterol or hypercholesterolemia. While many patients are prescribed statins to ... states they do not lower cholesterol but rather ...

Diet and exercise may not achieve LDL-C goals ... especially in high-risk patients. Cholesterol-lowering drugs include the statins, bile acid sequestrants (BASs), fibrates and ezetimibe.

Scientists have identified a gene that causes production of a substance in some citrus that interferes with many medications.

Adults with high cholesterol taking statins may have a significantly higher risk of developing glaucoma than those not taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs, an observational study of a large ...