Cholesterol News

The congress of the ERA-EDTA is the biggest congress in By SFP-iron administration, the ESA dose could be reduced by 35% while maintaining stable Hb levels.

Anthony Palmieri, RPh, PharmD, MBA; Alla Stavnitser, BS; Nisha V. Patel, PharmD; Ashley R. Miller, PharmD; Olga S. Matlin, PhD; and Steven M. Kymes, PhD Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States.

Cholesterol drugs account for some of the greatest profit sources ever developed by the pharmacological industry.

Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.5 billion that would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S. market.

Liberty Market has locally-grown, organic mushrooms from Thacker's Mushrooms . Because mushrooms suck up any toxins in their growing environment, it is especially critical to know where your mushrooms come from, and to purchase organically grown mushrooms.

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Question: I have been on medications for my cholesterol but, so far, the improvement has not been enough.

Main Category: Statins Also Included In: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness ; Sports Medicine / Fitness Article Date: 18 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT Statins, the most widely prescribed drugs worldwide, are often suggested to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease in individuals with obesity , diabetes and metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of ... (more)

Overweight and have high cholesterol? You may have to pick one to work on at a time, according to data from the lab of John Thyfault, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at University of Missouri.

Pharmacist Shane St. Arnault owns the pharmacy in Redwater and says the province's demand for lower drug prices may force him to further reduce services and cut his hours.

The plant that manufactures the API for Lipitor is the third Irish facility to be sold by Pfizer as patent expiration and lower sales have caused a redundancy in operations.

Recently a South Carolina woman filed a product liability lawsuit against Pfizer, claiming that the cholesterol drug Lipitor side effect caused her to develop diabetes.

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John Thyfault, University of Missouri, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, found that the popular cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin reduced the positive benefits of exercise for... COLUMBIA, Mo.

Clinicians need to identify coronary artery disease patients for whom the benefits of high-dose versus usual-dose statin therapy outweigh potential harm.

Ranbaxy, a subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo, has paid a $500 million fine and pled guilty to selling adulterated drugs manufactured in India .

A price check of five blockbuster drugs that now have generics on the market, including Lipitor for cholesterol and the blood-thinner Plavix, shows significant price differences depending on which pharmacy you shop.

Doctors advise patients who take statin drugs and some other medication to refrain from drinking grapefruit juice or eating the fruit.

Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean. It is by far the most widely used oil or fat according to the report that world soy oil production is almost three times that of second-place sunflower oil or third-place butter.