Millions of people take statins like Simvastatin (above) to lower their cholesterol levels. Newer PCSK9 inhibitor drugs can drop levels even further. Someone in the United States dies from heart ...

Marea’s Phase IIa study enrolled patients with hypertriglyceridemia—too much fat in the blood. The latest results showed the ...

Livalo is a brand-name drug used to lower cholesterol levels. Discover drug interactions in depth, when to avoid Livalo, and ...

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

RA: Dr Edelberg, could you please tell us more about the rare genetic mutation that leads to low cholesterol and how we came to our current understanding of this mutation? JE: Human genetic ...

Aug. 14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but our bodies also need cholesterol to survive.

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 ...

Novartis' cholesterol-lowering drug Leqvio will be made available on the NHS in England and Wales, and could help to prevent up to 30,000 deaths, according to NICE.

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical RARE announced that the European Commission (EC) has expanded the eligible patient population for ...

Zocor (simvastatin) and Lipitor (atorvastatin) are both statin drugs, which are medications used to lower cholesterol levels in the blood. Statins primarily work by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA ...

So, an elevated LDL cholesterol level is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. While lowering LDL cholesterol levels with statin drugs significantly reduces cardiac risk, reducing LDL ...