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There is a best time to take your medications, but your doctor may not know when that is. Researchers are still figuring it out, one drug at a time.
New review suggests many don’t benefit massively from taking a daily statin.
Public health recommendations have always been a hard sell. Resistance to new behaviors – like the mask-wearing and social distancing advised during the COVID-19 pandemic – is part of human nature.
Initial studies suggest these drugs, widely taken to lower cholesterol, may also reduce the severity of COVID-19.
Clinical trials are used to establish that medicines work. But these don’t take into account the genetic differences between us that can mean very different outcomes for different patients.
A new study has assessed the links between cholesterol and cognitive function.
Current cholesterol tests in the UK are outdated and are putting lives at risk.
Having very high levels of HDL is associated with increased mortality. But that doesn’t mean it’s not ‘good cholesterol’.
An Australian trial will give us a clearer picture of whether healthy old people benefit from taking statins to prevent heart disease and stroke.
Using electronic medical records may be a better way to treat those at risk of heart disease than treating everyone or treating only known ‘at risk’ groups.
Misreporting on the ongoing debate is likely to lead to more deaths from cardiovascular disease.
Rare diseases are yielding secrets about very common conditions.
Even for those on statins, a healthy Mediterranean eating pattern has been shown to bring extra benefits.
Fewer than half of Australians who have had a heart attack take blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent them having another one.
There is an increasing focus on alternative treatment strategies, developed to treat other diseases and conditions but re-purposed to tackle TB.
Lipitor was approved by the government in 1997, and while under patent protection it was the highest-selling drug of all time with worldwide sales of more than US$12 billion a year.
While studies suggests that cholesterol-lowering statins can make the flu shot less effective, the vaccine remains the best available tool for reducing flu-related complications and death.
Media are important. Especially the media we trust. One might express the effect of a piece of journalism (J) about, say, a particular drug or food, as a factor of media authority (A), multiplied by the…
In October 2013, Catalyst broadcast a segment highly critical of statins, a class of drug used for lowering cholesterol.
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