This risk is heightened if other cholesterol-lowering substances ... serious liver injury from taking red yeast rice extract supplements have been documented previously. Another supplement ...

Japanese health officials searched a Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. plant in Osaka following reports of five deaths linked to its cholesterol-lowering supplements using red yeast. The factory was ...

The firm urged customers to stop using the pills, which were advertised as cholesterol-lowering supplements. Kobayashi said it suspected that the problem may have come from previously undetected ...