The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Thursday sent letters to advertising agencies believed to be involved with a television ad campaign for the cholesterol medication Lipitor, manufactured by Pfizer, that features Robert Jarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart, the New York Times reports. The effort is aimed at requesting [...]
The percentage of young adults who take anticholesterol and hypertension medications has increased significantly in recent years, according to a report released on Tuesday by pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions, the AP/Washington Times reports.
According to the report, the percentage of adults ages 20 to 44 who took anticholesterol medications increased from 2.5% in 2001 [...]
It’s yet another example of how a good thing can go bad: Researchers have found evidence in laboratory studies that ‘good’ cholesterol, renowned for its ability to protect against heart disease, can undergo detrimental changes in protein composition that make it ‘bad’ for the heart.
Scientists long have suspected that there may be dysfunctional forms of [...]
Adult women are more than twice as likely to know how much they weighed in high school as they are to know their current cholesterol number, and only half of women have had their cholesterol tested in the past year, according to the results of a nationwide survey released today.
The survey, conducted by the Society [...]
FDA this week warned two companies to immediately stop promoting and selling red yeast products that contain the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin.
A warning letter was issued Tuesday to Sunburst Biorganics of Baldwin, New York, for the company’s Cholestrix red rice and yeast extract product. FDA issued a letter the next day to Swanson Health Products of [...]
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a group of liver enzymes called proprotein convertases (PCs) may be the key to raising levels of good cholesterol (HDL-C). The pathway by which these proteins are able to achieve an increase in HDL cholesterol involves another enzyme that normally degrades HDL-C, and [...]
Researchers have identified a new player in the control of so-called ‘good’ cholesterol that circulates in the bloodstream and reduces heart attack risk, according to a report in the August issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. Should the metabolic pathway uncovered in mice operate similarly in humans, the new discovery could point [...]
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a group of liver enzymes called proprotein convertases (PCs) may be the key to raising levels of good cholesterol (HDL-C). The pathway by which these proteins are able to achieve an increase in HDL cholesterol involves another enzyme that normally degrades HDL-C, and [...]
Practising physicians are nowadays presented with official guidelines on the treatments they should give their patients. In an article published in PLoS Medicine, researchers have attempted to grade the quality of evidence used in drawing up the recommendations contained in guidelines for the treatment of patients with diabetes, high blood pressure and dyslipidemia (abnormal levels [...]
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