Aug. 14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but our bodies also need cholesterol to survive.

If you’re diagnosed with high cholesterol, will you need to start taking a statin or other medication? Not always. If you’re taking medicine to lower your cholesterol, there may be times when ...

Medications alone aren't the only means to lower cholesterol levels. Some over-the-counter alternative high cholesterol treatments can help -- but others don't fulfill their promise. "While there ...

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has rejected Daiichi Sankyo’s new cholesterol-lowering drug Nilemdo for use by NHS Scotland, saying the evidence backing the drug isn’t strong enough.

Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment.

Well, Oxford University researchers are concentrating on eye disease with the LENS trial and have shown that a drug usually used to lower cholesterol, fenofibrate, reduces the risk of certain ...

The study demonstrates the superiority of TFF inhalational dry powders over jet-milling and spray-drying technologies in a rat model, with enhanced uniform drug distribution in the lungs ...

Herbal tea may seem like a diabetes-friendly drink. But you’re living with diabetes, think twice before you sip.

Modified citrus pectin (MCP) usually comes in powder form. Some say it may lower cholesterol and help fight ... Despite these potential effects, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not ...

Nearly two-thirds (64%)  of Americans who have tried weight loss injections report the drugs as being “extremely effective” ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not approve dietary supplements before they are sold, so it’s tough to say that greens powders are safe across the board. This is why looking into a ...

A brown powder sample has been found to contain the highly-potent synthetic opioid fentanyl after being tested by Canberra's drug checking service CanTEST. Fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger ...