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Science News
July 12, 2003
Janet Raloff |
Cholesterol Medicine for Eggs? A Taiwanese research team has been investigating red-yeast rice as a food supplement for chickens that might in turn lay low-cholesterol eggs.   |
American Family Physician
April 15, 2003 |
Cholesterol What is cholesterol?... Why is a high cholesterol level unhealthy?... When should I start having my cholesterol level checked?... Are there different kinds of cholesterol?... What can I do to improve my cholesterol level?... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Which Medications Are Your Best Bets? Consumer Reports' effort to rate drugs offers a marketing lesson to pharmaceutical companies. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Tom Randall |
Merck May Have a Cholesterol Winner Merck told doctors at the American Heart Assn. annual meeting that new data showed its drug anacetrapib had reduced bad cholesterol by 40 percent while raising good cholesterol by an unprecedented 138 percent. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Good Data, Big Drug Market, but Still Risky Eli Lilly's evacetrapib is behind Roche and Merck. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Pfizer's Long-Shot Lipitor Gamble Don't count on OTC Lipitor anytime soon. |
Chemistry World
January 27, 2011
Elinor Richards |
Diet affects cholesterol drug Copper and zinc in the diet could impair the action of statin drugs, compounds prescribed to lower cholesterol, say US scientists. |
Reason
September 2005
Kerry Howley |
Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs U.S. prescription laws make us sicker and poorer because the system that puts drugs over the counter is driven by profits and patents. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Prepare for This $12 Billion Whoosh Pfizer's Lipitor is the top-selling cholesterol drug -- in fact, it's the top selling drug period -- but it'll start to see generic competition in a little over a year. |
Managed Care
November 2004
Martin Sipkoff |
OTC Status for Low-Dose Lovastatin Would Have Widespread Implications The FDA stands poised to approve OTC low-dose statins, following a similar change in United Kingdom. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2001 |
Goals for Lowering Your Cholesterol Why is it important to have a normal cholesterol level?... What does the term "total cholesterol" mean?... Why is LDL called the "bad" cholesterol?... What are normal cholesterol levels?... How can I reduce my LDL and total cholesterol levels?... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Merck Tries to Stop the Flushing The FDA will review the pharma's new cholesterol drug. The biggest worry with getting CORDAPTIVE approved is probably not with its effectiveness, but with safety. Investors, take note. |
| AskMen.com |
Cholesterol & The Prostate A new study suggests that men may be able to lower their risk of getting the most aggressive form of prostate cancer by keeping their cholesterol in a healthy range. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Panel Kills Merck's Hope of OTC Status An FDA advisory panel isn't convinced that Merck's cholesterol-lowering drug MEVACOR deserves OTC status. |
Managed Care
April 2004
Jack McCain |
Statin Therapy: More Than Meets the Eye? Statin selection has just become more complicated. Will physicians be diverted from interventions that may be less costly and just as effective? |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Jeffrey M. Laderman |
Diet Alone Might Do The Trick Before I filled my prescription, I tried cutting fat and adding fiber to reduce my cholesterol. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C. P. Williams |
The Next Statin Although clinicians have firmly established the link between cholesterol levels and heart disease, there are still more questions than answers when it comes to the nitty-gritty molecular details of this connection. |
AskMen.com
Shannon Clark |
Cholesterol Lowering Diets If you want a healthy system, it's worth taking the time to understand cholesterol-lowering diets. |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Is Schering-Plough the Comeback Kid? Schering posts an OK quarter despite the slowdown in sales of its cholesterol drugs. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2000
Vincent Morelli, M.D. & Roger J. Zoorob, M.D., M.P.H. |
Alternative Therapies: Part II. Congestive Heart Failure and Hypercholesterolemia Natural supplements are widely used by the American public but, while claims of their therapeutic effects abound, medical research does not always support their effectiveness... |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2005 |
What Should I Know About Cholesterol? A patient hand-out on how cholesterol levels effect the likelihood of heart attack and stroke. |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
Big Pharma's Blinders Hugely profitable thanks to a few blockbusters, Big Pharma is far too focused on looking for the next best-seller, causing companies to pass up opportunities to deliver important breakthroughs. |
Health
January 2008
Jessica Snyder Sachs |
What You Must Know About Your Cholesterol Many of us are in the danger zone, and we don't realize it. What can we start to do right now to change that? |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
Cholesterol: How Low Should It Be? New studies say as low as possible, but drugs aren't for everybody |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2005
Lockman et al. |
Treatment of Cholesterol Abnormalities The relationship between coronary heart disease and elevated cholesterol levels has been recognized for many years, but now studies show an improvement in patient-oriented outcomes in patients receiving drug therapy. |
Science News
May 6, 2006
Janet Raloff |
Reevaluating Eggs' Cholesterol Risks A new study shows that people susceptible to substantial blood-cholesterol spikes after eating eggs manage this extra cholesterol in a way that limits damage to their hearts. |
Chemistry World
December 13, 2013
Megan Tyler |
DIY cholesterol monitoring A team of scientists from the US have developed a simple system that will allow people to test their blood cholesterol levels at home, using a smartphone. |
AskMen.com
February 14, 2002
Sebastien Stefanov |
The Truth About Eggs Eggs have gotten a bad rap over the last few decades. Deemed bad for the heart by health experts, they have been the subjects of criticism and scrutiny. But are our white (sometimes brown) friends really that unhealthy for us? |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2003
Arash Mostaghimi |
The Cholesterol Wars Who will win the fight to save your arteries? Fortunately for our corpulent country, pharmaceutical companies want to unclog our arteries -- and lighten our wallets. But which pharma stock will add to most girth to a portfolio? |
Food Processing
July 2007
Mark Anthony |
Eating away at cholesterol Many people are turning to foods before they try drugs to lower their LDL cholesterol, and the food industry is well-armed to respond. |
Nutra Solutions
July 1, 2005 |
Lowered LDL Study finds that subjects with moderately high cholesterol experienced a 6% drop in total cholesterol after taking a 5g daily dose of an immunoglobulin protein isolate over a period of three weeks. |
Chemistry World
August 16, 2013
Paola Quattroni |
Single molecule fights heart disease on two fronts Researchers in Israel have identified an antioxidant that can lower cholesterol levels as well as eliminating free radicals. This compound could be a promising alternative to statins, the most prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs in the world. |
Science News
February 24, 2001
Janet Raloff |
Path to heart health is one with a peel Citrus fruits may deserve a more prominent role in the diet. A research team in Canada has just shown that drinking several glasses of orange juice daily can pump up blood concentrations of the so-called good cholesterol... |
