High cholesterol doesn't come with symptoms, but it can still be a serious risk to your health. Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are commonly prescribed to bring your numbers back down into ...

Dear Dr. Roach: In a recent column, you wrote about reducing cholesterol with the help of statins along with a PCSK9i, such as Repatha or Praluent. My question is: Are these PCSK9is at all beneficial ...

The newer statins on the market have longer half-lives than the original statins. Alternative dosing schedules using once-, twice- or three-times a week or every-other-day dosing, have been ...

Dear Dr. Roach: In a recent column, you wrote about reducing cholesterol with the help of statins along with a PCSK9i, such as Repatha or Praluent. My question is: Are these PCSK9is at all beneficial ...

Elevated serum cholesterol is a major heart disease risk factor. There can be a genetic link responsible for high cholesterol, but for the vast majority of us, lifestyle and diet will be the key ...

Red yeast rice extract may hold heart benefits but not all doctors are enthused. June 9, 2008— -- When 61-year-old Mark Aloe learned that he had high cholesterol and a family history of heart ...

A new discovery may explain why so many people abandon cholesterol-lowering statins because of muscle pain and weakness.

Miranda is considering taking statins after receiving blood test results that indicated high cholesterol - Clara Molden for The Telegraph Around eight million people in the UK are on statins, and I ...