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.

The highest dose of an experimental pill developed by Eli Lilly dramatically lowered an inherited form of high cholesterol in ...

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 ...

When you've got hyperlipidemia—that's the fancy term for high cholesterol—those extra lipids begin clogging up your arteries. The Cleveland Clinic has broken it down: think of these lipids ...

The Cleveland Clinic has detailed how excess cholesterol, or hyperlipidemia, leads to plaque build-up in arteries, which narrows them and can result in a heart attack or stroke if a clot forms.

a class of drug that effectively reduces cholesterol. Guidelines for doctors do not recommend prescribing statins to diabetic patients unless they have high cholesterol levels. But the new ...

When cholesterol levels are too high, known as hyperlipidemia, the surplus lipids begin to accumulate in your arteries. The Cleveland Clinic explains that these lipids merge with other substances ...

Federal officers in British Columbia seized drugs and chemical precursors that could produce about 96 million opioid doses, the authorities said. By Vjosa Isai Reporting from Toronto Canadian ...

This would pave the way for more advanced and ethical drug discovery by reducing the need for animal testing. Head of the Collins BioMicrosystems Laboratory at the University of Melbourne ...

Duterte tells the Senate, "I hate drugs, make no mistake about it". Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that he kept a "death squad" to crack down on crime while mayor of one ...

Pink cocaine is an unpredictable party drug mix often containing ketamine, MDMA, and other substances, but it rarely contains actual cocaine. Due to batch-to-batch variability, users can't predict ...

MANILA — The cockiness, expletives and threats unleashed by former President Rodrigo Duterte in a Senate inquiry brought back the nightmare of the bloody “war on drugs” for many families of ...