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

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

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 ...

Two new drugs will soon be available to target little-known forms of high cholesterol, which are driven by our genes and which so far have lacked treatment options. Two clinical trials involving ...

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The researchers hope the breakthrough will help scientists cure a genetic disorder that increases the likelihood of dying from coronary artery disease at a young age.

"the discovery of this mechanism opens up new opportunities to design targeted therapies to enhance the beneficial effect of ...

NICE has set a new target for cholesterol levels in people who have ... lowering the threshold for prescribing these drugs to a patient to below the previous 10% or greater risk over 10 years ...

The best levels for you, plus the right medications ... the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. What to think? The ideal cholesterol levels for you—and whether you rely ...

"This breakthrough is a big step forward in developing new malaria treatments," Yu said. "By focusing on PfNCR1, scientists could develop drugs that the parasite finds difficult to develop resistance ...