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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could pave the way for new drugs to lower “bad” cholesterol, also known ...

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

New Precision Medicine Approach Helps Detect ... Aug. 14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes ...

Cholesterol-lowering drugs may soon be routinely prescribed to ... patients unless they have high cholesterol levels. But the new findings show they can benefit people with diabetes even when ...

In fact, according to a 2016 analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine ... in combination with certain other drugs, including: The cholesterol-lowering drug ezetimibe (Zetia) has been ...

"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 ...

Malaria, caused by a parasite transmitted to humans through an infected mosquito's bite, is a leading cause of illness and ...

To estimate that risk, doctors use equations that include different risk factors, such as age, cholesterol levels, and blood ...