SaveHealth reports that high cholesterol affects 1 in 3 Americans, often without symptoms until serious events occur. It is ...

Finding a new use for old drugs. Statins are widely prescribed to reduce cholesterol and lower the risk of heart disease. But they may also hold the key to slowing or even preventing cancer spread.

A new medication that combines an already approved drug with a new unapproved one has been shown to cut the level of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, when statins aren’t helping enough.

Decades of research have established statins as a safe treatment to effectively lower cholesterol and improve health outcomes. Most people take these drugs without any adverse effects. However ...

I have always resisted taking medications, so my choice was to change my diet drastically and become a vegetarian. This cut my total cholesterol in half, and it stayed there for over 30 years.

My physician is not concerned, but I am. Why isn’t lovastatin bringing down my cholesterol levels to normal? — S.A. ANSWER: Lovastatin (Mevacor) was the first statin drug approved, but newer statin ...

Cholesterol-lowering medicines are some of the most commonly prescribed, effective drugs. But to influencers on TikTok, they're the enemy. The cholesterol-lowering drug Simvastatin. Like other ...

New Warnings on Cholesterol Drugs Sought Reports of Deaths From Possible Side Effect of Statins Cited by Consumer Group August 20, 2001 More than 23 years ago ...

Statins are very cheap and highly effective cholesterol-lowering drugs -- but high-risk heart patients may have an even better option, a new evidence review says. Combining statins with another ...

Robert Siegel talks with Dr. Jerry Avorn about ways to reduce one's cholesterol. Avorn is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief of… ...

Finding a new use for old drugs. Statins are widely prescribed to reduce cholesterol and lower the risk of heart disease. But they may also hold the key to slowing or even preventing cancer spread.