Cholesterol Reducing drugs are medications that help lower the levels of bad cholesterol in our blood. These drugs not only improve the lab numbers of bad cholesterol, but lower the risk of heart ...

Around 200 million adults worldwide use statins, making them one of the most prescribed drug classes on the planet. If you or ...

Are statins safe for long-term use? Learn about the benefits, side effects, and how they help reduce heart disease risk.

Take a look at the product insert for a statin and you’ll see a long list of side effects. The majority of them, a new study suggests, are likely exaggerated. Despite their widespread use, many ...

Statins are the most prescribed drugs in America. At last count, more than 50 million people were taking medications such as atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin or lovastatin to ...

The long list of side effects marked on the packaging of statins can be a turn-off for those who might benefit from the cholesterol-lowering drugs. But a new study found only a few of those side ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: I have a question about taking simvastatin for cholesterol. After about six weeks of taking it, my right heel began to hurt, as if I'd bruised it. In another week, my left heel began ...

Statins have been blamed for everything short of causing bad hair days—especially by the alternative-medicine crowd, who treat “Lipitor” like it’s a controlled substance. A new Lancet meta-analysis of ...

Here’s why heart specialists aren’t waiting for high cholesterol to use this cheap medication.

Monotherapy with inclisiran — an injectable small interfering RNA that targets hepatic proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) — reduced levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ...