A new side effect seems to be emerging for those cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs called statins: They may increase some people's chances of ...

Tweet Comment 0 . Lowering cholesterol levels could help the body's immune system fight infections, British scientists said on Tuesday.. . A study ...

Tweet Comment 0 . High doses of drugs aimed at lowering cholesterol are linked to increasing numbers of new type 2 diabetes cases in patients, said ...

Dr. Dianne McCallister, Chief Medical Officer at Porter Adventist Hospital . . A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows a link...

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday refused to revive Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd's patent infringement suit against AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP for the rights to Crestor, a multibillion-dollar cholesterol fighter.In a ruling that upheld a lower court, the U.S ...

NEW YORK, NY - (IBWire.com November 29, 2011) - People who need cheap health options commonly choose to use generic medicines such as Generic...

British researchers have good news for anyone taking the cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins: These drugs are effective and safe...

It now costs about $1 billion to get a new drug to market, or, if a company is unlucky, $1 billion to fail to get the drug to market. Like the...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than one in five people with heart disease aren't getting life-saving statin drugs despite guidelines saying they should, a new study shows.Researchers looked at nearly 39,000 people who had experienced a heart attack or ...

Leerink believes the failure of AstraZeneca's (NYSE:AZN) SATURN trial increases the risk to Crestor's positioning against Lipitor (NYSE:PFE)...