For CVS Health CVS, the key to building customer trust is to enhance access to life-changing medications and also make them affordable. Beginning July 1, the company’s Pharmacy Benefit Manager (“PBM”) ...

SaveHealth provides an in-depth look at cholesterol-fighting atorvastatin, its mechanism of action, clinical significance, and its impact in combating one of the most pervasive chronic health ...

Atorvastatin is a synthetic statin drug that belongs to the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor class. These medications work by blocking the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, which plays a central role in the ...

These medications work by blocking the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, which plays a central role in the liver’s production of cholesterol. This results in: Lower levels of LDL-C ...

Ezetimibe is a cholesterol-lowering drug that is often prescribed with statins to reduce LDL even more. The research was presented Wednesday during a late-breaking science session at the ...

Researchers are mindful of the exciting days when new drugs raised “good” cholesterol, or HDL, but found they didn’t lower the risk of a heart attack or stroke, says Stephen Nicholls, MBBS ...

Lipitor, the world's best-selling drug, lost its patent protection this week -- which is good news for Deb Streets and millions of Americans who want to buy a generic form ...

Methods: In this study, we investigated the combination of a statin [atorvastatin (ATO) or simvastatin (SIM) plus ezetimibe (EZE)] and utilized drug-treated RNA-seq transcriptome data from ...

Introduction: Drug combinations offer increased therapeutic efficacy and reduced toxicity and plays a vital role in treating chronic complex diseases. Understanding a drug combination's mechanism of ...

A group of drug wholesalers, retailers, health plans and others have asked a U.S. appeals court to revive their lawsuits accusing pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy of conspiring with Pfizer to delay ...