Statins rank among the most prescribed medications worldwide, with millions taking these cholesterol-lowering drugs daily to reduce their cardiovascular risk. While these medications effectively lower ...

With statins altering the liver’s natural function, and alcohol needing to be metabolised, Dr Guttmann says that having too ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most people who stop taking cholesterol-lowering statins - because of side effects or for another reason - are able to restart the same drug or a similar one without ...

Statins are prescription drugs for lowering cholesterol levels to normal. While some of these decrease your low-density lipoprotein or bad cholesterol by even 50 per cent or more, they also help your ...

Oct. 15 -- WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers have identified a common gene mutation linked to side effects in people taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. Statins can reduce ...

Statins are considered safe and effective, but they may not be right for everyone to lower cholesterol.

DEAR PEOPLE’S PHARMACY: I had been on simvastatin for about 18 years when I suddenly became very ill. I was completely fatigued and the right side of my body felt tingly and numb. At the hospital, ...

Recent guidelines for lowering cholesterol could result in nearly 13-million more healthy adults being put on statin drugs in the U.S. but one cardiologist says cholesterol lowering statins can be ...

New research reveals a surprising link between cholesterol and brain health. Lowering bad cholesterol, or LDL, may reduce ...

Kathryn Scott with the Louisiana Heart Hospital in Lacombe offers health information to Sharon Williams of Mandeville while Susan Gilbert of Mandeville waits for her cholestrol screening in 2008. The ...

An adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has an explanation for President Donald Trump’s supposed “dementia” and swollen cankles.