Melbourne researchers are helping expand options for people with high cholesterol that puts them at risk of heart attack or stroke, including world-first drugs for potentially deadly conditions.

Excess cholesterol is known to form artery-clogging plaques that can lead to stroke, arterial disease, heart attack, and more, making it the focus of many heart health campaigns.

Common cardiovascular drugs are linked to a lower risk of dementia in older age, according to a new study from Karolinska ...

In a study by the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute in Chicago, the RNA in the SARS-CoV-2 virus was found to "trigger the development of a unique type of immune cell with anti-cancer ...

Since the discovery of statins and the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) results three decades ago, remarkable advances have been made in the treatment of dyslipidaemia, a major risk factor ...

At AHA, Phase 2 results from Eli Lilly and Silence Therapeutics are seen as signs of a "major new path" of cardiovascular ...

Fortunately, this attention to cholesterol has prompted the development of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins and ...

The results show that long-term use of antihypertensive drugs, cholesterol-lowering drugs, diuretics and blood-thinning drugs ...

The use of diabetes and weight-loss medications like Ozempic or Wegovy—called GLP-1 drugs—has exploded in recent years, with ...

Managing diabetes and high cholesterol often requires lifestyle changes, such as eating healthier, exercising, and sometimes ...

Researchers looked at the health records of 17 million Americans with obesity and determined that between 2022 and 2023, ...

Cholesterol-lowering drugs may soon be routinely prescribed to people with diabetes, it emerged today. The Government promised to act upon the findings of a major study, which showed that more ...