Patients who need to lower their cholesterol will soon have a powerful new option. On Thursday, the Food and Drug ...

Updated cholesterol guidelines could make more than half of adults ages 30 to 79 in the United States eligible for statins.

2026 cholesterol guidelines from the ACC and AHA now qualify 87.5 million U.S. adults aged 30–79 for statin therapy — 21.5 ...

Most adults have levels of a dangerous type of cholesterol that are above 100, but this new drug can reduce levels to around ...

We've all recently gotten a crash-course in drug repurposing, thanks to near-daily news reports about efforts to identify existing medicines that could help treat COVID-19 in the early phase of the ...

Simvastatin is prescribed for high cholesterol. It’s a generic medication, available as the brand-name drug Zocor. It comes as an oral tablet and an oral solution. The cost of simvastatin can vary, ...

Scientists created a tool to help doctors predict a patient’s risk of severe muscle problems from taking a statin.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four common drugs -- lisinopril, simvastatin, metformin and tamsulosin -- appeared to lower the risk of a brain aneurysm, after ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Statin drugs, which have become the world's No. 1 selling drugs by cutting cholesterol and the risk of heart attacks and stroke, may also slow the lung damage done by smoking, U ...

Q: There was a lot of conversation regarding the illness called rhabdomyolysis during the recall of Baycol. What can you tell me about this disease as it relates to other statin drugs for lowering ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients taking statin drugs were almost 50 percent less likely to die from flu, researchers reported on Thursday in a study providing more evidence the cholesterol-lowering ...

A new study finds that statins, a drug used to lower cholesterol, do not cause muscle pain. The research found that for more than 90% of patients on statins who experience muscle pain, the medication ...