Cholesterol News

A survey by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has found that most Scots are risking skin cancer by using chip fat as a tanning agent. The YouGov survey of 1,000 peopl... Read more

Cholesterol lowering drugs Statins could decrease the risk of heart attacks in healthy people by 30 per cent, according to a new study.

In the study of more than 70,000 patients,... Read more

The long-held myth that burning of fat occurs not just during exercise but also long after the workout is over has been dispelled by researchers.

The team from University of Colo... Read more

A high-fat diet full of red meat and dairy products can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, says a new study.

The research has been published online June 26 in the Journal ... Read more

Salads do not seem to be a necessarily healthier alternative to the Big Mac hamburgers. Which?, a UK consumer watchdog, has found many salads on sale at leading stories a lot unhealthier tha... Read more

Popular cholesterol lowering drugs can protect nerve cells against damage, which is known to occur in the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients says a new study.

How nerve cells ... Read more

The number of patients who have lowered their "bad" cholesterol to the advised level has nearly doubled in nine countries over the last decade, according to a study released Monday.

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Popular cholesterol lowering drugs such as Lipitor (atorvastatin) fail to lower the risk of pneumonia in older adults, finds a new study.

"Prior research based on automated claim... Read more

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) used biodegradable nerve guides to transplant APCs into the injured peripheral nerves of laboratory rats in order to determine if guided fat... Read more

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that red yeast rice can be an alternative to cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins.

The study followed... Read more