Statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, have no effect on kidney function, a research team led by the University of ...

Red yeast rice supplements also emerged as a frequent topic. Many users promoted them as natural alternatives to statins, ...

Certain foods and drinks can affect how medications are absorbed by the body, meaning they may not work as intended. One ...

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia affects approximately 30 000 individuals worldwide.1,2 Patients have untreated high ...

JMP Securities reiterated its Market Outperform rating and $7.00 price target for Esperion Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ESPR) stock, ...

A longtime pharmaceutical executive laments the woeful state of the industry and calls for new leadership to win back public ...

While not an existential threat to Obamacare, the case could imperil access Americans have to cost-free preventive treatments and services, including HIV prevention medications, heart statins and ...

A recent breakthrough study has uncovered a promising link between non-statin cholesterol-lowering medications and liver cancer prevention. Among the drugs examined, ezetimibe—commonly known by ...

Livalo (pitavastatin) is a brand-name oral tablet prescribed to lower cholesterol levels in certain adults and children. Livalo has interactions with some other drugs. Examples include other ...

Background: Statins, as an important class of lipid-lowering ... drug-related hepatic disorder adverse events, with occurrences of 7,903, 3,074, and 2,512, respectively, as shown in Table 3. Table 3.