Matthew Muldoon, an internist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who specializes in clinical pharmacology, estimates that as many as 20% of people on statins suffer from such pain ...

Findings from a new study “support the hypothesis that statin intake on a regular basis is associated with a risk reduction of developing a new gallstone diagnosis followed by cholecystectomy ...

Statins are the most widely prescribed, cholesterol-lowering drugs in the world. Despite the expiration of their patents, revenue for statins is expected to rise, with total sales on track to reach an ...

Background: Statins are generally well tolerated, but some patients discontinue therapy secondary to adverse effects. Dosing a statin (rosuvastatin) every other day (EOD) may provide significant ...

More Americans than ever are taking statins. But just because you’re eligible, does that mean you should take one? The quick and short answer is, yes! If diet and exercise aren’t enough ...

A period of intense debate about statins, covered widely in the mainstream media, was followed by a substantial rise in the proportion of people in the UK stopping taking the drug, according to a new ...

Years of research show it matters when a patient takes medicine. So why don't drugs come with those instructions?

To better understand why human clinical trials have not been fruitful, Zeki and his team of researchers are examining the mechanisms and pharmacology by which statins affect ASM function in asthma.

Most statin drugs are FDA-approved for children and teens under age 18, but only if they have a genetic condition that cause extremely high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol. Yet in 2009 ...

The School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience has an international reputation for research excellence in cardiovascular biology,neuroscience, and cell signalling. The school is highly ...

I’m a 93-year-old woman in good health. I take 40 mg of lovastatin once a day for high cholesterol, but my cholesterol levels are always high when ...

Pharmacology is the study of drugs, while toxicology looks at negative effects of chemicals in living organisms. Topics in this field include pharmaceutics, cellular and molecular pharmacology ...