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From the Institute of Medicine , University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Heart Disease , Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; Department of Medicine , Skellefteaa Hospital and Umeaa University, Skellefteaa, Sweden; Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen , Bad Krozingen, Germany; Department of Cardiology , Stavanger University Hospital, ... (more)

AstraZeneca Release: Data Presented at the European Atherosclerosis Society Congress Reinforces the Differentiating Benefits of CRESTOR[TM] in Comparison to Atorvastatin and Simvastatin Data presented today from the VOYAGER study demonstrate the benefits of aggressive statin therapy with CRESTOR in comparison to atorvastatin and simvastatin in high ... (more)

Developments, news and strategies for drug development specific to phase I through Phase III global clinical trial management, execution, project management and outsourcing.

Statin drugs are used to lower serum cholesterol. They work by going into the liver and blocking key enzymes used in the cholesterol-production process.

Jay W. Marks, MD, is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Statin drugs commonly used to lower cholesterol levels may also slow the unhealthy growth of the prostate in men with elevated blood levels of prostate-specific antigen, a new study finds.

A year after a major study called into question whether prescribing an Abbott Laboratories ' pill designed to raise levels of good cholesterol protected against heart attacks and strokes, doctors are moving away from prescribing the treatment.

Drug-target interaction is the basis of drug discovery and design. It is time consuming and costly to determine DTI experimentally.

May 16, 2012 -- It is widely believed that raising "good" cholesterol levels lowers heart attack risk, but surprising new research finds evidence that this may not be the case.

Recent studies suggest that the reported protective effects of statins against community-acquired pneumonia and sepsis in humans may be due to confounders and a healthy user-effect. To directly test whether statins are protective against Streptococcus pneumoniae, the leading cause of CAP, we examined the impact of prolonged oral simvastatin therapy ... (more)

Lipitor , marketed by Pfizer to reduce blood cholesterol levels, has been the best-selling pharmaceutical of all time, with aggregate sales of over $125 billion and still going.

The widely used class of cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins may help elderly patients with high blood pressure avoid developing atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm abnormality tied to stroke. "Our study found that statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation," said Dr.

In this segment of Dr. Jim Lenhart's Healthline Today, Dr. Jim discusses the latest research on Simvastatin.

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Lipitor patients are not just imagining it: the generic version of the popular cholesterol-lowering drug that came out Dec.

Queen's University and NUI Galway and are leading a clinical trial to investigate the possibility that statins, a drug commonly used to combat cholesterol, might help patients with acute severe respiratory failure.

It's been long known that people on high doses of statins , cholesterol -lowering medications taken by millions of Americans, are at risk for a rare yet serious muscle condition.

Mylan will be barred from marketing a generic version of a Merck cardiovascular drug until the drug's patent expires, under a court ruling announced Friday.