Cholesterol News

OnlineClinic.co.uk, one of the UK's most trusted online healthcare providers, has announced that it has expanded its product range to include two new lifestyle products, High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol.

I am the 1 person in every 500 people in most countries who has high cholesterol.

It should be, considering the huge advances in medical knowledge since that time.

Health-insurer WellPoint Inc. is planning to stop covering Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor cholesterol-lowering pills for millions of members in favor of generic versions, marking a new challenge to Pfizer's efforts to fend off generic competition to its best-selling drug.

Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels can keep heart disease, heart attack and stroke away.

Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels can keep heart disease, heart attack and stroke away.

Michael J. Hass, Ph.D., looks at samples in his lab at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. Hass is among the authors of a study showing nicotinic acid could help produce more "good" cholesterol.

THE test I usually pay the most attention to is the cholesterol screen or lipid profile.

Q: You have written several columns about the potential benefits of using a statin drug.

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When I was getting my degree in exercise science, one of the things we learned how to do is an exercise stress test with an ECG .

Forget the oysters and the champagne this Valentine's Day. If you want to keep your true love's heart beating strong, dark chocolate and red wine are the food and drink of love, said Susan Ofria, clinical nutrition manager at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital.

I'm aged 43 and have been taking simvastatin for seven months due to high cholesterol.

Most of us can recognize the difference between a brand name product and a non-brand named or generic product.

You have to know the high cholesterol symptoms as it is very important for you. Cholesterol is such a nutrition element, which is needed for the proper growth of a human body.

Q: High bad cholesterol, low good cholesterol, Off Lipitor due to severe loss of muscle, what foods or supplements should I take? Important: We hope you find this general health information helpful.

On February 2, 2012, Mylan Inc. announced the tentative U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Atorvastatin Calcium.

Merck & Co. swung to a fourth-quarter profit because of lower restructuring and other charges and higher sales of most of its key drugs.

THURSDAY, Feb. 2 -- Be wary of buying the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins on the Internet, British researchers say.