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

These drugs reduce the cholesterol your body makes and help clear out LDL in your blood vessels where they can leave ...

Researchers from the University of Leicester, working with international collaborators, have unraveled a key mechanism by ...

Pharmacy benefits manager CVS Health has warned that the new PCSK9 inhibitor class of cholesterol-lowering drugs poses an unprecedented challenge to the US healthcare system. In a blog post ...

Current AHA guidelines call for healthy Americans to bring LDL below 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood, while those who’ve had a heart attack or stroke are encouraged to drop LDL at least ...

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 ...

When ApoB100 binds to LDLR, which is the target of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, its fatty cargo can be delivered into ...

The findings could lead to more tailored treatments for cardiovascular disease. Scientists at the Institutes of Health (NIH) ...