A combination therapy of two drugs — a statin and a protein inhibitor — may help suppress the creation and growth of tumors ...

Statins: For statins, the side effects can be surprising. Some people taking these medications have been found to gain weight ...

Nat Clin Pract Oncol. 2005;2(4):174-175. In the Consumer Use Study of OTC Mevacor [6] survey of outcomes among 3,316 consumers in a simulated OTC setting, individuals with LDL cholesterol between ...

Statin drugs have made history for their blockbuster sales, and their use is only expected to increase when Lipitor's patent soon expires. But, for millions of people, statins simply don't do enough.

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 ...

Salk scientists discover protein first identified at Salk in 1996 called PIN1 encourages tumor growth in bladder cancer, then ...

Future Cardiol. 2009;5(1):1-4. That leaves extrapolation from secondary prevention women's results to support primary prevention statin use, yet the risk profiles for women in the two groups ...

Apolipoprotein B concentration is the strongest lipid-associated predictor of cardiovascular events. However, in patients who require lipid-lowering therapy, LDL cholesterol is the primary ...

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Health experts have advised people to make two simple changes to their diet to lower their cholesterol levels before it gets so bad they need to take drugs like statins. High cholesterol is ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease that causes the immune system, which normally fights infection, to attack healthy joints. This produces inflammation in the joints, resulting in pain, swelling ...