Statins

One of the world's largest studies on the impact of cholesterol-lowering medication has highlighted an issue with a new class of drugs that could impair lung function in some patients. That's the finding from a recent University of South…

Patients struggle to find life-saving statins as pharmacies run short of the anti-cholesterol drugs as prices soreEight million Britons rely on statins to lower cholesterol and prevent  strokesPrices of atorvastatin have risen…

I’ve been taking statins for over 30 years. I am now on my fourth type, as each one causes me bad side-effects. How important is it that I take them?Name and address supplied.This question will be of interest to many of the eight million…

A new daily pill which dramatically lowered cholesterol in trials could soon be available to patients with particularly high levels of ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol.MK-0616 has been shown to reduce levels of cholesterol by more than 60 per cent —…

A new cholesterol-lowering pill that drives down the risk of heart attacks and strokes is set to transform the treatment of patients who can't take statins due to debilitating side effects.The £600-a-year drug, bempedoic acid, was approved…

It's a landmark decision that could see millions more Britons prescribed statins. But at the same time, the move has reignited a decades-long row over whether the cholesterol-busting pills are safe.  Numerous, influential studies have…

GPs will prescribe statins to anyone who wants them under new guidance aimed at preventing thousands of heart attacks and strokes, it was revealed yesterday.NHS drug watchdogs have effectively axed the eligibility criteria for the…

Millions more people will be able to get statins on the NHS under radical guidelines aimed at preventing thousands of heart attacks and strokes.The drugs watchdog has widened the eligibility criteria for the cholesterol-busting pills after…

Researchers from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) and the Medical University of Vienna (MedUni) have demonstrated for the first time that high doses of cholesterol-lowering statins impair bone quality in mice. The finding came as no…

Statins' success may be fuelling obesity crisis by discouraging patients from losing weight, experts sayAround eight million Britons are taking statins to lower their cholesterolThe effective protection against heart attacks…