Hospitals and Healthcare

A recent study showed that a statin drug significantly lowered the risk of heart attacks and strokes among middle-aged and older people with the virus.

These cholesterol-lowering medications have gotten a bad rap. Here’s why.

Doctors know that drugs called statins lower a person's risk of a stroke due to a blood clot. But a new study shows that the inexpensive medications can also decrease the risk of a first stroke as a result of an intracerebral hemorrhage, the deadliest kind.

Knowing the odds of side effects and making sure to get periodic checkups that would pick up an adverse reaction, I chose to focus on the drugs’ potential benefits.

New drugs could cut cholesterol by up to 75 per cent and prevent thousands of strokes, heart attacks and deaths, but there's a catch.

Statins are often given to healthy people to prevent a potentially devastating problem, so some patients object to taking them.

The reason statins can make your muscles sore or weak was unclear—until scientists accidentally stumbled upon an answer.

Thousands of lives could be saved each year if more took the cholesterol-lowering drugs, researchers say.

Statins are often given to healthy people to prevent a potentially devastating problem, so some patients object to taking them.