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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Going green may be heart healthy if the green you choose is pistachio nuts, according to researchers at Penn State who conducted the first study to investigate the way pistachios lower cholesterol. "We investigated mechanisms of action to explain the cholesterol-lowering effects of the pistachio diets," says Sarah K. Gebauer, recent Penn State Ph.D. recipient, currently a post-doctoral research associate,...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention using lipid-lowering medications can be improved by adopting the absolute-risk approach, according to a research paper in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. Lipid-lowering medication reduces blood cholesterol levels, an important risk factor for CVD.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Genzyme Corp. (Nasdaq: GENZ) and Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISIS) announced that they have begun a phase 3 study of mipomersen in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (heFH), a genetic disorder that causes exceptionally high levels of LDL cholesterol. It is the first of four new trials the companies plan to initiate by the end of this year, and the second late-stage study...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Pfizer announced that new statin users who took Lipitor® (atorvastatin calcium) were significantly more likely to stay on their medication compared to those who took simvastatin, according to an observational study of more than 186,000 patients in one of the largest U.S. managed care claims databases. The results were published in the July issue of Current Medical Research and Opinion.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
A great deal of scientific evidence shows that cholesterol-reducing medications known as statins can help prevent coronary artery disease. Although the safety of these medications has been well documented, as many as 40 percent of patients who receive a prescription for statins take the drug for less than one year.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Pfizer Inc announced that it has entered into an agreement with generics manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. of India and certain of its affiliates to settle substantially all their patent litigation worldwide involving Lipitor, the world's most-prescribed cholesterol-lowering medicine. Under the terms of the agreement, Ranbaxy will have a license to sell generic versions of Lipitor and Caduet in...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
People with high cholesterol in their early 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than those with low cholesterol, according to research that will be presented at the upcoming American Academy of Neurology 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 12-19, 2008.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
An article published in the Archives of Internal Medicinereports that statins - medications that are usually prescribed to lowerblood cholesterol levels - may also lower blood pressure. Beatrice A.Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla)and colleagues noted a modest but significant reduction in bloodpressure for patients taking statins.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Sermo (http://www.sermo.com), the largest physician-only online community, today announced the results of a physician survey prompted by the swirl of media coverage following the release of ENHANCE trial data at the recent American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference. The focus of the study was on the effectiveness of frequently prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs, Vytorin and Zetia.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Aggressively lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels below current targets in adults with type 2 diabetes may help to prevent - and possibly reverse - hardening of the arteries, according to new research supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
eFoodSafety.com (OTCBB: EFSF, http://www.efoodsafety.com), a researcher, developer, and marketer of whole food nutraceutical products, has launched an all-natural supplement, called Cinnechol™ (http://www.cinnechol.com), that offers a complementary and/or alternative solution to traditional cholesterol drugs.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
In 2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers published a study that found people with low levels of LDL cholesterol are more likely to have Parkinson's disease than people with high LDL levels.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
At the 23rd Annual European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress, results were presented which added evidence that Levitra® (vardenafil HCI) works very well in men with dyslipidemia.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Trans fats are a cholesterol double whammy. Also known as trans fatty acids, trans fats raise low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") cholesterol and lower high-density lipoprotein (HDL or "good") cholesterol.Experts consider trans fat the worst type of dietary fat. Trans fat contributes to heart disease by promoting low-grade inflammation in the blood vessels. And, trans fats are associated with a...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday sent a letter to the CEOs of Merck and Schering-Plough that requested additional information about their decision to wait for more than one year to release the results of a study on the cholesterol medication Vytorin, markete
