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Use of high potency statins and rates of admission for acute kidney injury: multicenter, retrospective observational analysis of administrative databases.

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This undated product image provided by AstraZeneca shows the pharmaceutical company's cholesterol drug Crestor.

Doctors should avoid ordering certain antibiotics for older patients who take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor, Canadian researchers say.

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How does this differ from other forms of dementia? What is the time frame for progression of this illness? -- P.M. Answer: Vascular dementia, also called multi-infarct dementia, is caused by poor blood flow to the brain.

AARP's Public Policy Institute have released a new Rx Price Watch report examining efforts by Pfizer to reduce the impact of generic competition for the popular anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor.

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A genetic mutation that causes coronary disease is under investigation after a higher-than-average number of fatal heart disease cases in the Barossa Valley.

The report breaks down the unusually aggressive strategy reportedly undertaken by Lipitor's manufacturer before and after the drug's patent expired and discusses how the effort could become a model for other brand name drug manufacturers facing generic competition, ultimately increasing costs for consumers and publicly-funded programs like Medicare ... (more)

The peach, the oh so lovely fruit with only 37 calories, is a perfect summertime snack.

The popular Jersey shore resort town will vote Wednesday night on a proposed law that would ban overly saggy pants on the boardwalk.

Abbott Laboratories aggressively promoted its Niaspan cholesterol treatment, almost tripling U.S. use of the medication, in the seven-year period before studies in 2011 found the drug ineffective, a study found.

Prescriptions for niacin have jumped in recent years, raising questions about whether the more than $900 million the United States now spends yearly on the vitamin is wise, given that it has failed to show benefits for preventing deaths from cardiovascular disease in the last two large clinical trials.

PATIENTS are paying $220 a year too much for the nation's biggest selling medicine because of the government's poor management of the drug subsidy scheme.

Esperion Therapeutics Inc. Friday announced "positive" results from a Phase 2a clinical study of its product candidate ETC-1002 in patients with high cholesterol and a history of bad reactions to existing statin drugs.

Often referred to as "the silent killer," stroke is the fourth-leading cause of the death in the U.S., behind only heart disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory diseases.

The proportion of U.S. families who can't keep up with their medical bills declined between 2011 and 2012, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- from 21.7% in the first six months of 2011 to 20.3% in the first six months of 2012.

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