SaveHealth reports on cholesterol medications, detailing common types like statins, their effects, and safety considerations ...

Statins are the go-to medications for lowering “bad” LDL cholesterol, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and ...

Prevastatin is prescribed for conditions including high cholesterol in adults and some children. It’s a generic medication that isn’t available as a brand-name drug. The drug comes as an oral tablet.

Statin drugs that lower cholesterol have become popular. Merck, which manufactures the statin drug, Mevacor, thinks its product is safe enough to be sold without a prescription. An advisory committee ...

If you have high cholesterol, there's a good chance your doctor has recommended statins to get your numbers back into a ...

New evidence hints that statins may protect a wider range of people with type 2 diabetes than previously assumed. A major ...

A new discovery may explain why so many people abandon cholesterol-lowering statins because of muscle pain and weakness.

For decades, statins have been the quiet workhorses of cardiology, cutting heart attack and stroke risk for millions while ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Huifeng Yun, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in Birmingham, AL presented data stating that low adherence to antihypertensive medication may be ...

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators plan to ask outside experts if the agency should revoke approval of Abbott Laboratories Inc's heart medicine Trilipix for use with a cholesterol-lowering ...

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trial was stopped early because a daily statin medication was found to reduce the increased risk of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV ...