With fruit juices, full-fat coffees and sugary cocktails wreaking havoc on our heart health, here are five expert-approved ...

According to Dr Yaranov, total cholesterol numbers do not tell the whole story. He shares 6 markers that assess the risk of heart disease more accurately. | Health ...

A massive analysis of randomized trials suggests that most side effects listed on statin labels may not be caused by the ...

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.

Most US adults did not know about nonstatin medications and were not aware of lipoprotein(a) or coronary artery calcium scores.

Nuffield Health, which describes itself as the UK's largest healthcare charity, explains that the most harmful type of ...

Statins have been blamed for everything short of causing bad hair days—especially by the alternative-medicine crowd, who ...

Statins are highly effective drugs that lower LDL or “bad” cholesterol levels and have been repeatedly proven to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Cardiovascular disease results in around 20 million deaths worldwide and causes around a quarter of all deaths in the UK.

Statins do not cause the majority of the conditions that have been listed in their package leaflets, including memory loss, depression, sleep disturbance, and erectile and sexual dysfunction, ...

If approved by the FDA, the pill could offer an easier alternative than injected cholesterol-lowering medicines.

Scientific evidence suggests that, for a small number of people, particular statins can trigger uncontrolled calcium leakage ...