Rader and other scientists are hard at work developing new types of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Their argument: millions of people need them. For one thing, statins only do so much. When patients ...

These drugs may also improve survival rates in kidney and liver transplant patients. Statins have anti-inflammatory properties that affect blood vessels, the heart, and the brain. This effect ...

Cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs taken by millions of Britons may not work well enough in about half of those prescribed them, research suggests. UK investigators looked at 165,000 patients on ...

At that time, many drug companies and universities in ... 2)—and launched it in 1989. Five other types of synthetic statin—fluvastatin, cerivastatin, atorvastatin, rosvastatin and pitavastatin ...

The researchers said: 'We found that lipid-lowering drugs, particularly statins, were associated with decreased risk of 21 ...

An expensive but "game-changing" anti-cholesterol drug could soon be offered to ... Zena Forster has now tried several different kinds of statins to control her high cholesterol Zena Forster ...